

AI-Powered TV: Smart Agents, Tokens & Real-Time Context | Mateusz Poreda, Rumi (#65)
Oct 16, 2025
Mateusz Poreda, co-founder of Rumi, discusses transforming passive TV into interactive experiences. He explains how decentralized nodes enable real-time content indexing and contextual ads. The conversation explores the potential of AI remotes for personalized media engagement and the future of contextual advertising. Mateusz also highlights the significance of incentives and token airdrops for user participation and Rumi's vision to create a gamified viewing experience, engaging audiences in ways never seen before.
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TV Becomes Interactive Play
- Rumi transforms passive TV into interactive, personalized experiences by enabling users to ask questions and modify content.
- Mateusz Poreda frames this as turning viewers into players and video into video games.
Decentralized Story Trees From Edge AI
- Rumi indexes streaming content by running compressed VLMs on users' devices to build granular story trees.
- Nodes extract relations between actions, objects, emotions, dialogues and characters for rich media understanding.
Match Jobs To Device Power
- Configure jobs to match device capability so every participant can contribute meaningfully.
- Reward light nodes for impressions and heavy nodes for compute-intensive indexing and redundancy.