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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** β€” Open-source work on inference optimization, model compression (REAP, AWQ), KV cache strategies, and multi-GPU serving on consumer hardware.
**Education** β€” Community workshops, meetups, and resources helping people in the Fox Valley region understand and use AI tools.
**Open Source** β€” Everything we build ships public. If it helped us, it should help you.
## Projects
- **[CTX (Context Transfer Format)](https://github.com/mtecnic/ctx)** β€” 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)
- πŸ’Ό [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/nicwienandt)
- πŸ’» [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).*