Ankesh Bharti

I'm an independent researcher and technologist based in Pune, India. My work explores client-side systems that expand users’ agency, with a focus on on-device and open weights AI, which I’ve been exploring since their early days.

I believe in the idea of the technium (opens in a new tab): that technology behaves like a living system with its own tendencies, shaping human choices as much as we shape it.

I'm the founder & CEO of Tiles Privacy (opens in a new tab), where we build a local-first, collaborative AI assistant that works for you. I'm also a co-founder and community steward at User & Agents (opens in a new tab), and previously served as a core team member of OSDC (opens in a new tab), my university’s open-source club.

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"The economy is an expression of its technologies"