For a Human-Machine intelligence system that is: Personal & Private, On-device & On-premise, Nodal & Networked, Decentralized & Distributed
The POND Principle: a Human-Machine Intelligence (HMI) system that is
"The POND is not one company, platform, protocol, or product. It is an emerging ecosystem of people, devices, models, companies, organizations and communities which together form intelligence systems that are based locally, connect voluntarily, and participate in larger networks without surrendering private data, identity, agency, and value to any centralized authority."
POND Starter Kit: open models for your own hardware. 13 open models for chat, reasoning, coding, vision, speech-to-text, text-to-speech and private embeddings. Each runs on a laptop, a Mac or a single consumer GPU (GGUF, MLX, ONNX). Kitten TTS is the voice of Inti by Intelligence Systems, a POND personal node technology. ā POND Starter Kit collection
The POND Principle dataset. The core principles of Human-Machine Intelligence (Personal & Private, On-Device & On-Premise, Nodal & Networked, Decentralized & Distributed) as a small open dataset, CC BY 4.0. ā POND-is/pond-principle
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On Hugging Face, we gather open models, datasets and Spaces that run well on hardware you own: small and efficient models, on-device and in-browser inference, local agents and memory, and networked, privacy-preserving approaches.
"We value serious inquiry over hype, working systems over slogans, transparent economics over token speculation, and constructive criticism over ideological conformity."
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The future of intelligence should not belong only to those who own the largest data centers. Welcome to the POND.
