Notes from a slower way to build.
Field notes, essays, and dispatches from the Atman team.
✦21 June 2026
The frontier fits in three billion parameters.
VibeThinker-3B matches flagship reasoning models hundreds of times its size — on a model small enough to run on the device in your hand. On what a 3B model says about where intelligence lives.
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✦11 June 2026
The frontier now ships in two editions.
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — one model, two doors. On what shipped, and what it says about who gets to hold the frontier.
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✦04 June 2026
When the weights finally fit.
Bonsai Image 4B and Gemma 4 12B dropped in the same window. Last month the hardware arrived. This month the models did.
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✦04 June 2026
The hardware that makes on-device AI inevitable.
RTX Spark closes the last gap between cloud capability and personal compute. A field note on why the substrate finally caught up.
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