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XRX STUDIO, Inc.

XRX STUDIO, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in July 2026. The engineering studio stays where it has been since 2023, at Incheon Startup Park, which is where the runtime and the emotion engine were written and where they continue to be written.

That is the whole of the news. The rest of this is why we bothered.

What we are actually trying to do

Almost every system you can talk to today is built to answer. It waits, it responds well, and then it forgets you, and the next time you arrive you are a stranger again. The industry has spent several years getting very good at the answering part and has left the rest of it alone.

The rest of it is where we think the interesting problem is. Not a better answer, but something that carries. A presence that knows how long it has been, that means what it says rather than performing it, and that is still recognisably the same thing next month.

Underneath that sits a stranger idea, and it is the one we would most like to be right about. If a character can have a self that we model, then the person in front of it can be modelled the same way. What the system comes to know about a person would then belong to that person, and could travel with them, instead of being divided up among the products that happened to meet them.

Ten shallow relationships do not add up to one deep one. That sentence is the shortest description of what we are building against.

Why a company and not a project

A character that is different from yesterday cannot be a relationship. That single constraint turns out to demand a kind of endurance that a project does not have. It means committing to a personality staying itself across years and across every place it is deployed, which is a promise you can only make if there is something durable making it.

So there is now a company whose reason for existing is to keep that promise, incorporated in the place that makes it easiest for people on both sides of the Pacific to work with us.

Where this actually stands

We would rather be honest about the scale of it than sound further along than we are.

Most of this is unsolved. We do not know how long a feeling should last, or how a system should tell a welcome interruption from an intrusive one without watching more of someone's life than it has any right to. Our characters live properly in one place so far. The creator beta opens in November.

What we do have is a working system, a team that has built real time engines and the intelligence that runs inside them for two decades, and a clear enough view of the problem to know which parts of it we are still wrong about. We write those down as we go, in the research notes.

The studio has existed since 2023. The company that intends to carry this the rest of the way starts now.

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