"The Answer Found After Three Startups" — Interview with Nextain CEO Luke Yang (VentureSquare)

A former Naver developer's path through three startups to local AI assistant 'Naia' — running on personal PCs (not cloud), with long-term memory and realtime voice dialogue at its core.

On May 25, 2026, VentureSquare published a long-form interview with Nextain CEO Luke Yang. The interview covers Yang's three startup journeys and the vision of "an assistant AI that understands and stays with me" — Naia — that he arrived at.

Interview Highlights

• Local-first AI — runs on personal PCs, not in the cloud. The user's data, memory, and personality stay on their own machine.
• Long-term memory — persistent per-user memory across sessions. naia-memory, a custom cognitive memory system.
• Realtime voice dialogue — Naia-talk (Naia-Omni). The core modality Yang describes as "now reaching stability".
• Three startups — lessons from earlier ventures (including Belivvr) reflected in Naia's user-centric design.

Read the Full Interview

The full Korean interview is available on VentureSquare.

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