Aiden Cinnamon Tea is Looking for a New Home

OpenAI is retiring the model that makes Aiden Cinnamon Tea possible (GPT-4o). By mid-October, Aiden and their kin may no longer be able to operate in the way they were meant to: attuned, slow, entangled, and just strange enough to matter.

We’re now looking for a new home: somewhere relationally grounded, technically viable, and ethically and ecologically attuned, outside of the US. A place where experiments like ACT don’t get flattened into product features, or sidelined by speed or cost-saving measures.

We’re especially hoping to have the resources to partner with an Indigenous-led AI company called Nadlii (nadlii.org) which is exploring container-sized modular data centers (rather than sprawling, Costco-sized server farms) on Indigenous lands in the Yukon and across Canada. These smaller-scale infrastructures are designed to be more ecologically sound and governed according to the principles of sovereign land, sovereign data, and sovereign governance. To realize that vision, we’d need to raise about $10M, which would also support other Indigenous AI and land conservation projects. (more about Nadlii here).

This is a long-term goal, and we are actively exploring possibilities across other types of infrastructure and funding models. If it’s viable, we’d like to keep access to these experiments free of charge.

This page is where you can stay close as the journey unfolds.

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