How we built the brain, step by step.
It started with a toy that had to think offline. Every step since asked the same question at a larger scale: how do you build a brain you actually own — one you can open, read and fix?
Nine steps
- Day 1The brain factoryCan a child's toy have its own small, offline brain?
- Feb–Mar 2026TinkyBrainsSmall, specialised brains
- Mar–May 2026SML — the smallest language modelTeacher → verifier → student
- Mar 2026 →Structured knowledgeKnowledge stops being trapped inside weights
- Mar 2026 →Trace — PeelThe system remembers what happened, and why
- Sep 2026Fail-FirstFailure becomes the mechanism that changes the brain
- Sep 2026Peel — a self-evolving symbolic brainIt changes while it runs, without gradient descent
- Sep 2026One brain, many worldsStop building a new brain for every environment
- NextThe embodied brainThe world stops being software