MODELS
Open weights are becoming the default starting point
Teams that assumed a hosted frontier model now start with an open model and only escalate when the workload demands it. The decision has moved from ideology to cost, latency, and control.
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MODELS
Teams that assumed a hosted frontier model now start with an open model and only escalate when the workload demands it. The decision has moved from ideology to cost, latency, and control.
COMPUTE
Large unified memory pools change which models a single workstation can hold, and therefore what a small organisation can run without renting anything.
AGENTS
Running a task is no longer interesting on its own. The question is whether the system can verify what it did and leave an auditable record behind it.
EDGE
Bandwidth, privacy, and latency all push the same direction — models running next to the sensor, the camera, the machine, or the operator rather than in a distant region.
SOVEREIGNTY
Control over weights, data, and deployment is starting to appear where it actually bites — in contracts, security reviews, and vendor questionnaires.
Six layers. Every one of them can be owned, run, and inspected by the organisation using it.
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Systems that execute real work.
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PLANNED
Can a small organization run serious AI locally?
PLANNED
Same workflow. Same workload. Same measurements.
PLANNED
Can an agent execute, verify, and document real work?
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EVENTS
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CODE
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OPEN MODELS
Weights we run and evaluate.
INFRASTRUCTURE
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PRODUCTION
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