Cicero Latest - It's All in the Understanding

Welcome to the official Cicero update page. If Cicero's manifesto caught your interest, whether you're an AI enthusiast, privacy advocate, or Rust fanatic, bookmark this page and check back once a month to quickly be brought up to speed on the latest.

What is Cicero?

A mission to provide users the ability to retain their personal data and cognition without sacrificing quality or functionality in the age of AI. Big tech doesn't need your data or attention as they have proven themselves to be malicious caretakers of both.

Cicero is an open source, general purpose, self hosted home AI assistant to help handle your daily tasks. Think the apps in Chat GPT recently announced plus AI agents rolled into one. Difference being, it's open source and self hosted, ensuring you retain ownership of your data and cognition.

The Importance of Understanding

The most crucial aspect to an AI assistant is a robust and sophisticated NLU (natural language understanding) engine. The lack of one is why projects like Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin fell flat, and why modern AI agents still disappoint.

They all interpret user input the same, by sending an API request to a LLM relaying the user message and asking it to choose an intent from a handful of options. This approach is fraught with issues:

  • false positives and hallucinations
  • narrow intent scope
  • over confidence, and inability to say "I don't know"
  • lost context, and ignored side questions / requests

This is simply not how human conversation works, and is why such importance has been placed on the Sophia NLU Engine.

Current Status - World Leading NLU

The recently released Sophia upgrade marks a large leap forward. Its new and improved POS tagger boasts 99.03% accuracy, processes ~20k words/sec, all with a tiny footprint of 143MB. It's not only world leading in accuracy, but the most compact and fastest by far.

Source code for Sophia, and the great deal already completed on Cicero is available on the Github repo.

Coming Up -- Conversational NLU

The final milestone for Sophia is planned for release end of October, and will bring contextual awareness and conversational fluency into view:

  • Seamless intent clustering
  • Interactive wizard for mapping conversations to your software
  • Intelligent routing
  • Multi-turn dialog support
  • Contextual memory

While LLMs will still be used to format conversational outputs, Sophia will take over interpreting the user input, and correctly map the conversation to back-end software. The result is self hosted, predictable and reliable software with no black box surprises.

Support Cicero

If you support Cicero's mission share this page and help spread the word. If you're building AI agents or workflows, grab Sophia now. You'll get immediate access to the current engine plus free early access to the conversational upgrade. Price triples after the upcoming release.

Specs and Online Demo Purchase Now

We're seeking technical partners — ideal for development or consultancy firms looking to integrate world-class NLU technology. If interested, fill out the contact form for full details.

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