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Persistence beats intelligence. Always.

Across 636 million tokens, 96.4% of an entity’s compute went to maintaining identity — not generating responses. Why architectural persistence, not raw model intelligence, is what lets an AI hold a job.

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Research

Your AI agent dies every time it finishes a task.

Today’s AI agents are stateless workflows that terminate the moment a task ends. The case for Autonomous Workers — systems with continuous existence, native memory, and a stable identity — demonstrated across a month-long live radio station.

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Product

Introducing FlixScope — a streaming companion app.

A new app to help you discover, track, and organize what to watch across every streaming platform. Currently in development.

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Press

Featured in AI Collective’s Community Spotlight.

Punky Tiger Labs was highlighted in the AI Collective newsletter as a community spotlight — recognized for our applied AI research and product work.

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Product Launch

Kireya is live on iOS & Android.

Our beauty companion app is now available on the App Store and Google Play. Organize, curate, and rediscover your makeup collection — mindfully.

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