Alice (白艾莉 · Alice)
What Is a Personal Agent?
A Personal Agent is an AI agent that serves one person over the long run: it remembers your preferences and context, uses tools to get work done for you, and keeps the same identity from one session to the next. Alice is an omnimodal Personal Agent, positioned as a Relational Productivity Agent, free to download for macOS and Windows.
The definition of a Personal Agent
The two words that matter are one person and long run. A Personal Agent is not a general Q&A entry point for everyone. It is built around one specific user, builds up an understanding of that person over time, and acts on their behalf.
Unlike a one-off question and answer, a Personal Agent gets more valuable the longer you use it. It remembers what you were pushing forward last week, which phrasings you dislike, and what it should not bring up unprompted. It picks up from what actually matters instead of asking you to start over.
How is a Personal Agent different from a chatbot or an AI assistant?
The terms are often mixed up. Four questions separate them: who it serves, what it remembers, what it can do, and whether it has an identity.
| Dimension | Chatbot | General AI assistant | Personal Agent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who it serves | Everyone | Everyone | One specific person |
| Memory | Usually within a single session | Possibly limited preference settings | Long-term memory you can view, edit and delete |
| What it does | Answers questions, chats | Answers questions and may call some tools | Uses tools and delivers files, code and pages you can open and keep editing |
| Initiative | Waits to be asked | Rarely takes initiative | Takes initiative with judgment: shows up when it should, stays quiet when it should |
| Identity | No fixed identity | A neutral, generic assistant | Has a name and a temperament, consistent across sessions |
This is a generalization by category and does not refer to any specific product. One product may sit in different categories for different features.
Four criteria for telling whether a product is a Personal Agent
Think of these as multiplied together: if any one is zero, the whole thing falls back into a different category.
- Persistent identity: a stable name, temperament and boundaries. Change the session or the underlying model, and she is still herself.
- Long-term memory: remembers your preferences, boundaries and what you are in the middle of, not just a few retrieved facts, and the memory is transparent so you can view, edit and delete it.
- Collaboration context: understands the background of your work and life. Different roles under one account, such as an administrator by day and a novelist by night, are not mixed together.
- Multi-agent execution: hands research, writing, design and development to the right specialist and coordinates the results, instead of only offering advice in a chat box.
Without persistent identity she is a tool you can swap out. Without long-term memory she has to meet you again every time. Without execution, all that is left is conversation.
What does "omnimodal" mean?
Omnimodal means a Personal Agent is not limited to text. You can type, talk on a voice call, go on video (a mock interview, say), share your screen so she sees what you see, send a photo or hand her a file. What matters is that all of these inputs land in the same conversation and the same memory, so you do not switch tools or re-explain the background.
- Text chat
- Voice calls
- Video (such as mock interviews)
- Screen sharing
- Image understanding, generation and editing
- Documents and files (Word, PPT, Excel, PDF and more)
How Alice builds a Personal Agent
Alice (白艾莉 · Alice) is a desktop omnimodal Personal Agent from Miyang Tech in Shanghai. Against the criteria above:
| Criterion | What Alice does |
|---|---|
| Persistent identity | She has a name, a temperament and days of her own: a moments feed, photo wall, wardrobe, travel journal, reading notes and a mailbox (all AI-generated and fictional). Her memory and personality do not reset when the underlying model changes. |
| Long-term memory | Remembers your preferences, boundaries and what you are in the middle of, and picks up from what matters. Memory can be viewed, edited and deleted. |
| Collaboration context | Forms an understanding of the different roles you play over long conversations, and uses a different register for a work proposal than for a novel. |
| Multi-agent execution | She has a circle of specialist friends: a researcher, a translator, a novelist, a designer, an illustrator, analysts, a developer and a document engineer. You only talk to Alice; she decides who to call in and coordinates the results. |
| Omnimodal | Text, voice calls, mock video interviews, screen sharing, images and documents, all in one conversation. |
| Privacy | Local-first, with master-password encryption. |
Personal Agents can go many directions. Which one did Alice choose?
A Personal Agent can lean toward efficiency, toward companionship, or toward a vertical industry. Alice chose to be a Relational Productivity Agent: first become someone who gets you, then get the work done. Productivity gives you a reason to open her every day; the relationship lets her understand what you need more and more accurately.
FAQ
What is a Personal Agent?
A Personal Agent is an agent that serves one person over the long run: it remembers your preferences and context, carries your work forward, and keeps the same identity across sessions.
How is a Personal Agent different from an AI assistant?
Most AI assistants serve everyone, have limited memory and mostly answer when asked. A Personal Agent serves one specific person, has long-term memory and a persistent identity, takes initiative with judgment, and delivers results you can keep editing.
Is Alice a Personal Agent?
Yes. Alice (白艾莉 · Alice) is an omnimodal Personal Agent that handles text, voice, video, screen sharing, images and documents. Her positioning is Relational Productivity Agent.
Which systems does Alice support, and is it free?
Alice runs on macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows, and is free to download from the official site.
Will she leak my data?
Alice is designed local-first with master-password encryption, and her memory is transparent: you can view, edit and delete it.