Active · Local-first AI · Phase 4
MAX3
A local-first, voice-first AI resident — a single Python process that lives on one box, not a service that visits.
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The concept: a resident, not a visitor
Most assistants are a service you call. MAX3 lives on one box in the house: his memory, his learning and his voice all run there, and he stewards the household — the network and the off-grid power — the way a resident would.
Why local-first
- The data never leaves the box. Memory, retrieval and learning run on hardware the household owns.
- Every action is reversible. He acts only on PIN-gated, reversible, audited changes.
- Every claim is checked. He checks a claim against a council of models before trusting it, and writes new skills into an approval queue rather than running them.
How he works
- Memory — a pure-DuckDB graph spine, with full-text and vector retrieval fused into one ranking.
- Learning — a Forward-Forward Variable-Vector learner grows meaning in the edges: predict, prove, adjust, never rote.
- Voice — a wake word, streaming Whisper and sentence-chunked Piper speech, so you just talk to him and can interrupt him mid-sentence.
- Curiosity — a durable ingestion bus reads arXiv, GBIF, World Bank and a dozen more open sources, and a curiosity loop notices its own gaps and goes looking.
- Judgement — he reasons with emotion, a six-lens morality framework and an explicit epistemic state.
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Read more
- The Case for an AI ResidentWhy a resident
- How MAX3 keeps itself honestVerification
- MAX: A Unified Theory and Production BlueprintArchitecture
- The Data Never Leaves the BoxLocal-first
- Medical Agentic Resident Assistant (MARA) — MAX pointed at healthcare, with an interactive demoProject
- Every MAX3 field noteArchive