Gumboot Labs .

New Zealand doesnt have a frontier AI Lab. If you want to train models and do hard AI work you have to move to Toronto and work for $NVDA (Hi Mike!) or go to San Francisco and help Google track every single person on the planet. I wanted to make somewhere for awesome people to do AI in New Zealand, and also for us kiwis to have the capability to train models from "the pile" in NZ. Pretraining, post training, reinforcement learning, the whole shebang. Otherwise you'll never know whether Dario put "Australia invented the pavlova" into the training data, and it'll corrupt our democracy. After watching Alex do Opensea and then go over to Openrouter and then sell it to Stripe for a bajillion dollars, I decided to start with the consumer version of Openrouter and make Botparty - a nice front-end to multiple chat engines. Have built about a dozen vibe-coded excellent quality oneshots, and abandoned them all. Also built a really good version of slack where bots are first party participants. And have trained some nice turn taking models. One day I'll release the product and diverse my revenue from voxels. One day.