Dear World, Dear Matter members -
I have been recording memories in Matter since 2020. My Matter Memory Vault - now more than 1500 of my best moments - has had a profound impact on my life. It allowed us - together with our partners in Maastricht, Copenhagen and Stanford - to design the experiments which decrypted the biological code for human happiness. It allowed me to understand why I faced so many sad and frustrating periods in my life. It taught me to understand all my emotions, finally experience them without any ambiguity and embrace life to the fullest. Realizing that each distinct, positive emotion is highly contagious has changed me fundamentally: while living self-centered for years, I genuinely try to take care of other people now, simply because I understand better how they feel and it feels much better to feel good together.
Our brain is designed to recall memories only when we are in need or in desire for a certain information or emotion. Thus, our brain can never look at all our memories at once. This makes it biologically impossible to properly reflect upon ourselves, our lives. The Matter Memory Vault - and in particular the Matter Protocol which allows such a holistic reflection - changes this.
When we started in 2020, our idea was simple: create a personal partner genuinely interested in my personal wellbeing & progress in life. We anticipated that such a partner would likely be some kind of advanced machine intelligence given the massive amount of data in the memory vault that it had to analyse, understand and reason from. That´s why we have been working with machine learning and artificial intelligence from day one, a long time before the LLM boom.
That said, while my personal memory vault is very powerful, much more powerful than I ever imagined, it is also deeply private. My memories reveal what I love, desire, and hope for. Who or what turns them on and turns them off. Like any power its vector determines the outcome: the same memories that guide me to a really awesome life can enable others to build my "Room 101". So from the beginning, we believed that any machine intelligence built on top of the Matter framework had to be different from a general chatbot. It had to have a narrow purpose, strong, clear privacy boundaries, and enormous respect for each individual’s human experience. We have delayed this launch more than once because the product did not yet feel good enough, personal enough, or safe enough. In fact, I never uploaded my memory vault to any of our own prototypes in the past.
This time is different. This week we have launched “M”, your personal partner in happiness. The only machine intelligence with the goal to improve your wellbeing down to the molecular, foundational level. A partner in happiness that is not trying to capture your attention or increase your productivity but to make you really good at life. This time, I believe we are ready: I just uploaded my entire memory vault.
Preserving privacy has shaped how we built M. My photos, the biological key to open the memories in your memory vault and in your brain, remain encrypted through my device and my iCloud account. This is the same for all users. How we use other selected information to run the Matter Protocol you find here. M is built on Matter’s proprietary, patented neuroscience framework, years of coaching experience, and advanced AI capabilities.
The Matter Memory Vault and the Matter Protocol gave me the understanding of who I am and why I am here. In a world dominated by Artificial Superintelligence boom/doom scenarios, I am clearer than ever how unique human intelligence actually is: humans are pretty awesome because we learn from and enjoy experienced reality. No machine will ever be able to do that. But I do really hope that AI, in particular “M” with its tremendous cognitive intelligence, can help bring me to my next level.
Welcome M. Welcome to the Matter Club.
With love, Axel
Matter CEO, May 8, 2026.