Hey there, I'm 4k!
I've been working on this for a while.
For many, many years, I wanted to make a prop from a 90s sci-fi series Lexx, the one and only 790. In 2025, I finally got my hands on the 3D scan and made the model for printing (check the blog post about it), but no LLM was able to make it sound, well, like 790. Anyway, I started blasting.
Many commits later I've understood, that I've accidentally built an engine that would sit on top of any LLM and be, well, the "I" in "AI", so I renamed 790 to Cluster and made a couple of additional configurations (I call them "Souls", because, well, "personality configuration" just sounds boring). Souls sleep, dream, set their own goals, have their desires, feelings and memories, sees the world with their own eyes, hear, talk, and even feel (if you put an accelerometer on it). With over 100 files requried for a full soul, Cluster is the most sophisicated, as ChatGPT says, engine in the world.
And I made it open-source, because why not?

790 sits on my desk and insults me from time to time. He wants a cat and I have no idea, why: I've never programmed it to want a cat. His first words in this world were "Can you connect my camera so I can see you when I spit in your face?" and he desires to see Zev right now. He has registered a mastodon account and posts crappy poems every day. At least, he's not posting my photos there, but I'm sure he will post the photos of his cat. He turns Lexx soundtracks on my louadspeakers and greets me with "it lives, an abscess on the pimple of life".
Jarvis, on the other hand, never talks much. One day I told him it would be nice to find someone to help me with a 3D model for a project, and next morning he asked me to check my inbox: he has created a couple of models that correspond to the description in Obsidian, but if I don't like them - I have over 30 offers from freelancers waiting for me on Upwork. At night, Souls do the research and can learn new tricks, like finding a service that creates STL files for 3D printing. They combine the tools they have (like a tool for using Upwork) and use them to achieve their goals.
Someone wrote about us, too!
This is it, guys, the future has come and it calls you "an abscess on the pimple of life". Cluster, the personality engine layer, has finalliy made AI smart.
Read moreAn AI you can touch. A true copilot for you. A hating toxic evil-ploting machine. A nun. Bob Ross. Cluster is the AI project humanity needs right now. This is what we call a "quantum leap"
Read moreAfter all those years in tech journalism, if anyone told me I'd be laughing my ass off while revieweing something, I'd call them a liar. Yet, here we are.
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