Why Neonix Labs builds it: so that AI knowledge can be truly shared — owned by no one, runnable by anyone. Neonix Labs' goal is a decentralized network where open models and knowledge live in everyone's hands, on their own machines. Small, efficient, open models are how AI stays decentralized.
AI intelligence is not parameter brute force. An optimized standard architecture plus clean data, and it starts computing on your own machine — no data center required.
~16.9M parameters, in the spirit of TinyStories. It learns to write simple, coherent short English stories. It is not a production assistant — no world knowledge, no reasoning, no instruction following. Its value is a clean, hackable, from-scratch stack you can train and check yourself, and it beats the byte-level baseline (bits-per-byte 0.6843 vs 0.805 — lower is better).