The State of Utopia[1] is currently fine-tuning an older 1 GB model called Bitnet, so that we have something beginning to have the shape of a sovereign model that can run on the edge. We think having model sovereignty is important for our citizens, and we are working on tools for them to easily further fine-tune the model straight from their browser. We are currently running a 30-hour training run on some simple hardware and through webGPU, so that no trust or installation is required.
We made it possible to run the model in webGPU and it is pretty fast even in that environment. You can see the porting process in my last few submissions, because we livestreamed Claude Code porting the base model from the original C++ and Python.
In a separate initiative, we produced a new hash function with AI - however, although it is novel, it might not be novel enough for publication and it's unclear whether we can publish it. It has several innovations compared to other hash formats.
We are running some other developments and experiments, but don't want to promise more than we can deliver in a working state, so for more information you just have to keep checking stateofutopia.com (or stofut.com for short).
Our biggest challenge at the moment is managing Claude's use of context and versions, while working on live production installs.
Everything takes time and attention and Claude Code is far from being fully autonomous building new productive services on a server - it's not even close to being able to do that autonomously. We feel that we have to be in the loop for everything.
[1] eventual goal: technocratic utopia, will be available at stateofutopia.com