README.md

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# Fox Valley AI Foundation

**Community AI education nonprofit based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.**

We believe powerful AI shouldn't require a data center. Our work focuses on making local LLM inference practical, efficient, and accessible to everyone.

## What We Do

**Research** — Open-source work on inference optimization, model compression (REAP, AWQ), KV cache strategies, and multi-GPU serving on consumer hardware.

**Education** — Community workshops, meetups, and resources helping people in the Fox Valley region understand and use AI tools.

**Open Source** — Everything we build ships public. If it helped us, it should help you.

## Projects

- **[CTX (Context Transfer Format)](https://github.com/mtecnic/ctx)** — An LLM-optimized interchange format achieving ~87-89% token reduction vs. raw HTML
- Domain-specific fine-tuning research on consumer GPU clusters
- Local inference benchmarking and deployment guides

## Links

- 🌐 [foxfoundation.ai](https://foxfoundation.ai)
- 🐦 [@NicW_AI](https://x.com/NicW_AI)
- 💼 [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/nicwienandt)
- 💻 [GitHub](https://github.com/mtecnic)

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*Founded by [Nic Wienandt](https://linkedin.com/in/nicwienandt), serial entrepreneur and builder of [wAIve.online](https://waive.online).*