AVELIN is Live: A Three-Year Journey to a New AI

Today, we are officially launching AVELIN—the Artificial Intelligence my team and I have been building for the last three years. Our journey began with humble pilots, experimenting with the first GPT models and running foundational tests. We quickly evolved from simple, single-model chatbots to developing our own proprietary training system, complete with knowledge ingestion, document storage, and our first implementations of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). ...

30 July, 2025 · 2 min · 314 words · Yury Akinin

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Yesterday was a day focused on relationships. I was at a CLUB 500 event discussing friendship and its direct impact on team stability, project success, and the overall atmosphere within a company. Here are three thoughts I took with me: 1. Development Happens Only Through Interaction Sitting in a lotus pose is for stabilization. Real growth begins where there is live, human connection. Not over Zoom, not in a chat, but in a shared physical space. True progress is fueled by the kind of high-bandwidth, direct interaction that digital tools can only simulate. ...

2 min · 218 words · Yury Akinin