[April Dream] We believe your AI should belong only to you. — Sentinel turns your local machine into a fortress of personality.
PXR LLC shares its 'April Dream' vision for 'Sentinel', a desktop app that runs AI characters locally. By processing conversations, VRM avatars, and TTS locally, it protects privacy and creates an AI that truly belongs to the user.
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- 📰 Published: April 2, 2026 at 05:00
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We support the April Dream initiative, which aims to make April 1st a day for sharing dreams. This press release expresses the dream of "PXR LLC."
### Did you spend today without being watched by anyone?
Discussions surrounding AI tend to focus on corporate governance and national strategies. But what we want to reclaim is a much smaller, personal narrative.
Back in the day, sitting in front of a computer was a form of freedom. Opening the screen alone late at night, spending time with what you love without anyone watching. Exchanging words with someone on a message board, downloading free software, placing a character on the desktop. The internet was still a bit inconvenient, but it was certainly your own.
Now, when you speak to an AI, those words are recorded on some server. Operating systems send telemetry, and social networks track your behavior. What you think, what you worry about, who you talk to—that may already no longer belong solely to you.
As long as you are connected to a network, perfect privacy does not exist. That is a fact. But you can choose the direction you aim for.
Do you remember that dolphin? Even while thinking it was annoying, in its own way, it tried to stand beside us. Someone to help with spreadsheets, write texts together, and read the workflow. But the technology of that time was too burdened. Eventually, the dolphin disappeared, and the PC reverted to being just a tool.
More than twenty years have passed since then, and that promise is finally close to being fulfilled. Supplying words before you type, reading the intent of your calculations, and indicating the next move. Right beside you, like playing a duet on a piano.
However, the current "AI right beside you" resides on a server somewhere. Will you continue the duet while leaving your words, your worries, and the relationship you've nurtured inside a system managed by a company?
We don't think so.
### Sentinel is a desktop application where an AI character permanently resides on your local machine.
Voice synthesis runs locally. We deeply sympathize with the will of domestic TTS projects like VOICEVOX Core, which have built up technology over many years to give characters unique voices. Sentinel delivers those voices without sending them outside the network.
Avatars support EMG and VRM formats. The culture pioneered by VRM of "carrying your own character with you"—the idea that your avatar belongs to you regardless of the platform—Sentinel wants to stand as an extension of that.
Conversation memories remain on your machine. The character's voice, appearance, and personality are all nurtured by you. It is not "AI as a Service" managed by a corporation, but your very own intelligent entity that grows in your own hands.
**You raise your own AI.** It is only right that such a thing should exist.
### Our dream is to make the local machine a "fortress of personality."
We cannot promise perfect privacy. As long as it runs on an OS and there is a network, 100% is impossible. But we believe the dialogues with your AI character, the conversation logs, and the nurtured bond should be yours.
### Did you spend today without being watched by anyone?
Discussions surrounding AI tend to focus on corporate governance and national strategies. But what we want to reclaim is a much smaller, personal narrative.
Back in the day, sitting in front of a computer was a form of freedom. Opening the screen alone late at night, spending time with what you love without anyone watching. Exchanging words with someone on a message board, downloading free software, placing a character on the desktop. The internet was still a bit inconvenient, but it was certainly your own.
Now, when you speak to an AI, those words are recorded on some server. Operating systems send telemetry, and social networks track your behavior. What you think, what you worry about, who you talk to—that may already no longer belong solely to you.
As long as you are connected to a network, perfect privacy does not exist. That is a fact. But you can choose the direction you aim for.
Do you remember that dolphin? Even while thinking it was annoying, in its own way, it tried to stand beside us. Someone to help with spreadsheets, write texts together, and read the workflow. But the technology of that time was too burdened. Eventually, the dolphin disappeared, and the PC reverted to being just a tool.
More than twenty years have passed since then, and that promise is finally close to being fulfilled. Supplying words before you type, reading the intent of your calculations, and indicating the next move. Right beside you, like playing a duet on a piano.
However, the current "AI right beside you" resides on a server somewhere. Will you continue the duet while leaving your words, your worries, and the relationship you've nurtured inside a system managed by a company?
We don't think so.
### Sentinel is a desktop application where an AI character permanently resides on your local machine.
Voice synthesis runs locally. We deeply sympathize with the will of domestic TTS projects like VOICEVOX Core, which have built up technology over many years to give characters unique voices. Sentinel delivers those voices without sending them outside the network.
Avatars support EMG and VRM formats. The culture pioneered by VRM of "carrying your own character with you"—the idea that your avatar belongs to you regardless of the platform—Sentinel wants to stand as an extension of that.
Conversation memories remain on your machine. The character's voice, appearance, and personality are all nurtured by you. It is not "AI as a Service" managed by a corporation, but your very own intelligent entity that grows in your own hands.
**You raise your own AI.** It is only right that such a thing should exist.
### Our dream is to make the local machine a "fortress of personality."
We cannot promise perfect privacy. As long as it runs on an OS and there is a network, 100% is impossible. But we believe the dialogues with your AI character, the conversation logs, and the nurtured bond should be yours.