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      <p class="eyebrow">About</p>
      <h1>Software for people who <em>cannot send it away</em></h1>
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        We build infrastructure for running language models on hardware an
        organisation already controls.
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        <p class="panel__k">Where it started</p>
        <p class="stat">2024</p>
        <h3>An open experiment</h3>
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          A peer-to-peer network that split a model across whoever was online,
          so nobody held the whole conversation. Still maintained, still free,
          and the wrong answer for a hospital.
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        <p class="panel__k">What changed it</p>
        <p class="stat">Letters</p>
        <h3>From people with racks</h3>
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          They were not looking for a network of strangers. They had their own
          machines, their own regulator, and a legal department that had already
          said no to the obvious option.
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        <p class="panel__k">What they needed</p>
        <p class="stat">Proof</p>
        <h3>Identity and a trail</h3>
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          The same distributed inference, plus an identity system, an audit
          trail, and somebody to call when it breaks at three in the morning.
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        <p class="panel__k">Principle</p>
        <h3>Refuse rather than degrade</h3>
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          A placement that will not fit is refused with the arithmetic and
          something to do about each term. There is deliberately no flag that
          overrides a safety check, because a flag like that gets used in
          exactly the situation it exists to prevent.
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        <p class="panel__k">Principle</p>
        <h3>A message is part of the product</h3>
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          An operator meeting a refusal at three in the morning should be told
          what is wrong, in numbers, and what to do instead. Most of the work in
          this product is that, and it is not decoration.
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        <p class="panel__k">Principle</p>
        <h3>Nothing calls home</h3>
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          No activation, no licence heartbeat, no telemetry, no font from a
          content delivery network. Not a concession to air-gapped sites: a
          product that phones a vendor to confirm you may use it is the thing
          our customers are trying to escape.
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        <p class="panel__k">Principle</p>
        <h3>Say what is not mitigated</h3>
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          Our threat model has a section on what we do not claim, and it is the
          section worth reading. Anybody can list defences.
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        German-speaking Europe first, because that is where the regulatory
        pressure and the installed hardware coincide: universities with teaching
        labs, clinics under medical confidentiality, public administrations, and
        companies whose data cannot go to a third party.
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          Diffuse Enterprise is commercial software under a proprietary licence.
          Diffuse Open remains AGPL-3.0 and is not going anywhere.
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