A Founder's Diary: 10 Days to the AVELIN Launch

I wanted to share what the final stretch before launching an AI product feels like. With just 10 days until AVELIN goes public, the pressure is immense, and the reality is a mix of controlled chaos and sharp focus. Our team is feeling the strain. As tasks pile up and deadlines loom, fatigue is a real factor. We’re constantly fighting the dilemma of adding ‘just one more thing’ versus locking in the release date and moving forward. ...

7 July, 2025 · 2 min · 377 words · Yury Akinin

Beyond 'Android without Google': Huawei's AI-Native OS Signals a Paradigm Shift

On June 21, Huawei released the beta for HarmonyOS NEXT. The key distinction of this new operating system isn’t a feature—it’s the architecture itself. AI agents are built directly into the OS, not as a plugin or an application, but as a fundamental component of the environment. This isn’t a minor update. It’s a strategic move built on a completely new stack: ...

25 June, 2025 · 1 min · 211 words · Yury Akinin

Diary of an AI Startup

This series of posts will be my way of documenting the journey of creating one of our team’s most ambitious products: the intelligent assistant, A.V.E.L.I.N. To give you some context, my development team and I are currently beta-testing the project within our Mozgii Ecosystem AI platform. Our primary focus is on A.V.E.L.I.N.—an intelligent personal assistant in Telegram built to handle both basic and complex tasks involving AI-powered search, processing, and analysis of information. ...

1 May, 2025 · 1 min · 211 words · Yury Akinin

AI in Messengers: Moving Beyond Simple Bots

Messengers have long evolved past being simple tools for exchanging messages. Today, they are the space where our work, personal lives, news, and friends converge. The logical next step is to integrate an AI assistant into this environment—one that helps structure communication and interacts with you in a familiar interface, just like any other contact. A majority of the solutions on the market are bots running on simplified or free versions of GPT. They can generate answers, but often fail to provide high-quality, deep information. ...

22 April, 2025 · 2 min · 252 words · Yury Akinin