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# Big Token and Personal Superintelligence | Arendil

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Will Big Token dominate the entire intelligence industry?

The entire Information Age?

Was Frank Herbert right about Thinking Machines?

We are on a mission to enable personal superintelligence.  
Training won't close this gap. Extreme compression does.

Open-Weight Frontier

Big Labs neglect consumer hardware in the pursuit of superintelligence.

Absolute Intelligence: Best AA Index

Closed weightsAll openUnder 20B

03060Dec '24Sep '25May '26

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