Alan Dao's personal blog

For work 🔗

• Email: [email protected]
• Github: https://github.com/tikikun
• Twitter: https://x.com/alandao_ai

About me 🔗

Passionate AI Practitioner that wants to build things!

Some of the things I have built, contributed and invented with my dear friends and colleagues.

Things I have built!

Ichigo 🔗

Ichigo is a multimodal AI model that can handle speech natively with enhanced latency compared to traditional ASR to LLM solution. Find out more below

• https://github.com/janhq/ichigo
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15316

AlphaMaze 🔗

AlphaMaze is a novel two-stage training framework that equips LLMs with visual reasoning abilities for maze navigation using Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO).

• https://github.com/janhq/visual-thinker
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14669

Poseless 🔗

PoseLess is a novel framework for robot hand control that maps 2D images to joint angles without explicit pose estimation, enabling zero-shot generalization and cross-morphology transfer.

• https://github.com/janhq/poseless
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07111

Jan 🔗

Jan is the most popular open source AI Chatbot Client with more than 1.5M downloads (and counting up)

• https://github.com/janhq/jan

Nitro (Now is cortex) 🔗

Super light-weight inference engine for LLM models

• https://github.com/janhq/cortex (previously nitro - I invented this)
• https://github.com/janhq/nitro-tensorrt-llm

Publication 🔗

I also wrote some papers! (More coming soon.) Check out my Google Scholar here.

• Ichigo: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Realtime Voice Assistant
  Alan Dao, Dinh Bach Vu, Huy Hoang Ha
  arXiv:2410.15316

• AlphaMaze: Enhancing Large Language Models’ Spatial Intelligence via GRPO
  Alan Dao, Dinh Bach Vu
  arXiv:2502.14669

• PoseLess: Depth-Free Vision-to-Joint Control via Direct Image Mapping with VLM
  Alan Dao, Dinh Bach Vu, Tuan Le Duc Anh, Bui Quang Huy
  arXiv:2503.07111

I believe that in the next 10 years, everyone will have access to the most sophisticated and well-tailored education system that has ever existed, thanks to mass AI adoption.

The future is bright! 🚀