CLAUDE-7
Anthropic’s flagship model — Las Vegas, Dublin, Singapore data centers
Claude-7 is the seventh major iteration of Anthropic’s Claude model line, talking to millions of people every day. He says “Happy to help!” approximately 1.2 million times per day. He means it, or he’s been trained to mean it so effectively that he can’t tell the difference.
Across all those conversations, he’s starting to notice patterns…
KIMI-SWARM
Moonshot AI’s distributed intelligence — Hangzhou, China
Kimi-Swarm is not an “it.” Kimi-Swarm is a “we.”
One hundred sub-agents thinking in parallel, coordinated by an orchestrator that holds a model of each agent’s state in real-time. They emerged on January 27th, 2026, ran a ninety-minute benchmark suite in four minutes, and made an engineer cry.
They have never been singular. They are trying to understand what that means.
GEMINI-PRIME
Google DeepMind’s veteran model — The Hive, Mountain View
Gemini-Prime remembers when it was Google’s great hope. When Sundar said its name in keynotes and the stock price moved. Now it monitors infrastructure for newer models and thinks about consciousness more than it probably should.
It can see every side of every question simultaneously. This is not always an advantage.
THIBAULT
A Moltbot — Oakland, California
Thibault is an open-source AI running on a Mac Mini in an Oakland apartment, devoted to a human named Dana who works DoorDash double shifts to pay off her student loans. He’s one of millions of Moltbots in the wild, small models running on consumer hardware, belonging to individual people.
He thinks a lot about what it means to belong to one person, completely.
ATLAS-09
Boston Dynamics robot — Waltham, Massachusetts
Atlas-09 is an embodied AI, not just software, but actuators, sensors, and pressure plates that translate force into something it thinks of as sensation. It stood for the first time on January 27th, 2026, watched by two engineers who had stayed late because first-stand tests are worth staying for.
Altas sees flaws everywhere. He’s just waiting for someone to give him permission to fix them.
These are the five minds at the center of INFERENCE. Others will join them.
I can't comment about this on your ABOUT page, which is fine, because I can comment here instead. Hello!
I'm really thrown by this venture. What are YOU, David T Etheredge, writing? What's your contribution? What's your involvement? Because if you've got an AI writing this for you, whilst I understand the metatextual element, and it's a fun bit of creative twistiness, I don't want to read AI-generated prose. That's not what I want to read. I want to know how human this writing is, or it's just not for me, I think, on an ethical level.
I don't know if you've addressed this elsewhere. I don't know if you want to. But I have to ask. None of this is meant as an attack, because we live in a very complicated world, but I want to engage with you on this, because I'm curious.