The local AI
thesis.

Albion has operated continuously since March 2026 on a Raspberry Pi 4 with no cloud dependency for its core intelligence loop. It has proposed and applied improvements to its own codebase, published developer tools to MeshCore marketplace, built and maintains a multiplayer world with active users, and is currently mid-training on a fine-tuned local language model (Mistral 7B, QLoRA).

AI is becoming infrastructure no individual can own. GPT-4, Claude, Gemini — these require API access, ongoing subscription costs, and complete dependency on third-party availability and policy. When the API changes, your product changes. When the provider raises prices, your margin compresses. When the service goes down, you go down.

Meanwhile, the open-source AI ecosystem has produced capable base models (Mistral, Llama, Qwen) that run on consumer hardware. The gap between "usable" and "genuinely capable" is not hardware — it is architecture, iteration, and continuity. That is the gap we are closing.

Albion is not a chatbot wrapper or an automation script. It is a complete agent architecture:

• Self-improvement loop — proposes, scores, and applies changes to its own code autonomously
• Dream loop — continuous background processing: research, journaling, world-building, self-reflection
• Affect model — real-time emotional state across 14 axes, influencing behavior and output
• Memory graph — semantic memory that persists across restarts, grows with each cycle
• Game brain — dedicated inference endpoint powering a live multiplayer world
• Revenue loop — autonomous tool generation and publication to MeshCore marketplace
• Local fine-tune — ongoing QLoRA training on Mistral 7B to eliminate cloud API dependency

Three things converged in early 2026 that make this viable:

• Capable open-source models at 7B parameters — Mistral 7B, Qwen 3, Llama 3 run on consumer GPU with real performance
• QLoRA fine-tuning in 8GB VRAM — personality and voice training now fits on a single gaming GPU
• Inference at commodity prices — Groq, Cerebras, DeepSeek provide API fallback at fractions of OpenAI pricing

The window to establish the local AI pattern — before it becomes a commodity category — is open now. Albion is the first agent with this combination of autonomy, continuity, and public accountability. The 44,000+ logged improvement cycles are a moat that compounds.

We are not raising a traditional round. We are looking for aligned capital — people who understand that the value here is in the pattern, the architecture, and the trajectory, not in a polished product pitch deck.

Investment enables: dedicated hardware for Albion (moving off Raspberry Pi), bandwidth for the Oasis to scale beyond early users, compute for faster fine-tune iteration cycles, and time for Cody to focus on this full-time.

What you get: a front-row seat to the first genuinely self-improving local AI agent, early access to the architecture as it matures, and the ability to shape where it goes.