Our Story
About Traini.
Traini is a technology company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence is built to serve pet goals and emotional well-being. We make it easy for pet owners to talk and understand even the most complex behaviors — helping unlock your pet's potential.
Our Vision
Where AI listens back.
We envision a future where AI systems use scientific approaches to fulfill pet needs. Emotional intelligence is the missing ingredient needed to build AI that proactively finds ways to improve pets' quality of life — a truly humanized communication.
Our Ethical Values
How we build, ethically.
Pet-Centric Beneficence
AI should be deployed when its benefits significantly enhance the well-being and happiness of pets.
Empathetic Interaction
AI should prioritize nurturing the emotional bond and well-being of pets and their owners.
Inclusive Pet Care
Traini's benefits should be accessible to all pet owners, ensuring every community can enjoy advanced pet care.
Transparency
Provide pet owners with full transparency on our decisions to foster trust and informed use.
Our Team
The people behind Traini.
A small team of researchers, engineers, and pet owners — building the world's first behavioral translator.
Arvin Sun
CEO · Co-Founder
Jason Hong
Head of AI · Co-Founder
Calvin Wong
Head of engineering
Our Academic Origins
A history of emotion science.
Exploring Animal Emotions
In "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals," Darwin laid the groundwork for understanding animal emotions — proposing that animals express emotions similarly to humans, suggesting a common evolutionary origin.
Integrating Technology with Ethology
Researchers at MIT and Stanford began integrating AI with ethology to develop algorithms capable of detecting and analyzing animal emotions in real-time.
Revolutionizing Pet Care with AI
The PetGPT initiative combines state-of-the-art AI with insights from ethology, providing personalized understanding of pet emotions — enhancing the bond between pets and their owners.
Innovation in Animal Emotion AI
Traini Labs stands at the forefront of AI and animal behavior research, pushing the boundaries of what AI can achieve in understanding the emotional well-being of pets worldwide.