Notes from the lab.

July 2026

Project Cambrian: Bridging 30 Years of Artificial Life with First-Principles Synthetic Biology

Announcing Project Cambrian (v1.0.0). How we unified 30 years of Artificial Life lineage—from Karl Sims supercomputer creatures to real-time 8-organ digital organisms executing at 60 FPS on consumer CPUs.

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July 2026

Project Big Bang: The Journey to Biologically Inspired Brains

The full story of BIB and Project Big Bang—how we built a virtual evolutionary environment to let neural networks survive, feed, and grow, and why biological fidelity beats standard deep learning.

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June 2026

The Great Bifurcation

How the BIM 4 prototype proved so successful that the project needed to split to honor both the commercial NLP disruptor (BILM) and the synthetic lifeform (BIO).

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2026

MAUL: The Hypothesis

Why specialization beats generalization. How routing requests through dedicated agents — math, code, search — outperforms a single model doing everything.

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2026

BIM: The Full Hypothesis

Transformers are frozen. BIM is not. The case for a biologically-grounded neural substrate that learns continuously, without catastrophic forgetting, on a CPU.

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