Allen Lee
Hi! I'm Allen — currently exploring the AI interpretability. Previously, I led AI products like WIRED AI and VOGUE AI at Condé Nast, and built a few consumer apps.
- 2025 - Now: Crafting a few open source ai projects like AirPosture and Horus
- 2024 - 2025: Defense AI project for DOD of Taiwan
- 2022 — 2023: CEO & Cofounder at Miurror
- 2019 — 2020: Founder of Too Early (acq.)
- 2017 — 2018 Interim product & AI engineering director / advisor to the CEO at Condé Nast International
- 2015 — 2017 Led Al Engineering & Growth at Mobiusbobs (reached 500M+ views globally)
- 2013 — 2015 CTO & Cofounder at R42 Robotics
Email: allenleexyz@gmail.com
Building
Past Projects
YTTL
(2024-Paused dev due to YT's strict parsing policy) Ask local LLMs questions based on RAG data curated from your YouTube lists.
Pensieve
(2023) OpenAI-CLIP-based photo search on macOS
Miurror iOS
(2022) A messenger app that shows you the facial reactions of your friends in virtual avatars when they read/reply to your message
Pamily (Mobiusbobs)
Tiktok for Pets before Tiktok was a thing. Reached 500M+ views globally. Funded by YouTube cofounder. (failed)
Too Early
(2020 sold to 7 Ventures) The most followed vc publication on Medium (beat a16z, Sequoia, Accel, Lightspeed…)
Brains (IPFS-Based Digital Brains Network)
(Archived in 2020) Inspired by Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊 シェルのゴースト), I believe the future of collective intelligence is a composable knowledge base network. (community fork)
Logo Designs
(2013-Now)iOS/macOS App logo design