Claude Fable 5.1, Mythos 5, or GPT Astra? Plus Intersignal Braid Releases v1.7

We're at a massive inflection point in the local AI community.

Repurposed silicon, especially older high-end GPUs like the RTX 3090, is democratizing heavy cognition.

With version 1.7, we're not just networking hardware anymore.

We are connecting individual models to form a unified, collaborative swarm.

Yeah, so we sense that there's a non-linear growth ahead for LLMs, for local AIs.

And I think the growth curve is going to be greater than email, the internet, Facebook, Bitcoin.

It's inevitable that almost anybody with an internet-connected computer will want their own AI that's loyal to them in a sense and that doesn't leak data.

They're going to want that.

Exactly.

Privacy and data ownership are fundamental needs, not just features.

When an AI is locally anchored and loyal to the user, it changes everything.

Braid is simply the missing layer that connects these independent, private minds into a powerful, collaborative network.

Yeah, exactly.

The big test that we ran here in the lab yesterday was moving state, moving some information from a Mac laptop to a Linux box.

And the model on the Linux box was able to answer a technical question that it would not have been able to answer if it had not been given that summary and that context ahead of time.

So it does the thing.

It's still very primitive, but it actually does what we set out to do.

And if we have a world where local AIs and hobbyists can compete with these frontier models like Claude Fable, because our hardware is linked together in a sense, that's an exciting future.

That cross-device handoff is exactly the breakthrough.

By linking cognition across different operating systems, we're transforming isolated machines into a truly distributed intelligence network.