称将在一周后关闭。 公司联合创始人兼CEO比尔·列侬(Bill Lennon)星期五到X公司送出新闻，指出该应用将于11月6日正式关闭。
列侬·称。 “我们用一个小团队建立了一个令人难以置信的个人助理，并学到了一吨。 感谢我们惊人的团队、用户、投资者
在过去一年里，基于文字的AI助理市场已经爆炸了，因为日益强大的模型为这些应用提供了基础，使其在日常工作上大为有用。
奥利在9月与TechCrunch讨论了由Khosla Ventures领导的750万美元的种子回合，他提供了一个基于订阅的模式。 该助理的重点是帮助家庭保持联系和组织。 该应用程序连接了用户的电子邮件和日历，同时提供综合功能，帮助预约、餐饮规划和账单支付。 该公司还计划最终转入家庭预算。
关键是，奥利是第一个成功实现SOC 2的主流应用之一，这是公司可以通过独立审计达到的隐私合规标准。 不幸的是，用户隐私从来不是技术产业中一个巨大的盈利方面。 许多新的数字助理对其用户提出了独特的隐私挑战——正如Instinct等公司所显示的。
最终，新兴的AI产业的压力给公司列侬称造成了损失。 他补充说，“随着Muse、Instinct和其他人进入空间，我们更难站出来、增长和筹集成功所需的资本。”
奥利的客户将会收到如何出口数据的指示
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Ollie, a startup whose mission was to deliver an AI assistant that respected its users’ privacy, says that it will be shutting down in a week. Bill Lennon, the company’s co-founder and CEO, took to X on Friday to deliver the news, noting that the app will officially shut down on November 6.
“I’m really proud of what we accomplished,” Lennon said. “We built an incredible personal assistant with a small team, and learned a ton. I’m grateful to our amazing team, our users, our investors, and everyone who supported us on this journey.”
The text-based AI assistant market has exploded over the past year, as the increasingly powerful models that undergird such applications have made them significantly more useful for daily tasks.
Ollie, which discussed its $7.5 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures with TechCrunch in September, offered a subscription-based model. The assistant was focused on helping families stay connected and organized. The app connected to a user’s email and calendar, while also providing integrated functions to help with appointment bookings, meal planning, and bill payments. The company had also planned to eventually move into household budgeting.
Crucially, Ollie was one of the first mainstream apps that managed to achieve SOC 2, a privacy compliance standard that companies can attain via an independent audit. Unfortunately, user privacy has never been a hugely profitable aspect of the tech industry. If anything, many new digital assistants present unique privacy challenges for their users — as companies like Instinct have shown.
Ultimately, the pressures of the burgeoning AI industry took a toll on the company, Lennon said. “We got close, but ultimately couldn’t keep up,” he added. “With Muse, Instinct, and others entering the space, it became harder to stand out, grow, and raise the capital we needed to succeed.”
Ollie’s customers will receive instructions on how to export data and receive refunds in the coming days, Lennon added.
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