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EMPERO/00 — INDEXOPEN TOOLS · CLAIRE RELEASING SOON · BUILT IN GERMANY2026.05.29

Building a better
tomorrow.

Open AI tools, released to anyone with a GPU and the will to use them. Open weights, open code, no telemetry, no waitlists. Our next release is claire — a Rust-native, local-first coding agent. Subscribe below and we'll send the install line on day one.

FIG. 01 — claire / live● connected
claire@empero ~ live demo● rec
·claire v0.0.1 — pre-release · Rust TUI coding agent · github.com/empero-org/claire
Static preview. The agent itself is pre-release; this terminal is for show.
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claire
Releasing soon
github.com/empero-org/claire
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Open models on HF
huggingface.co/empero-ai
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Public datasets
~300k downloads · unfiltered
100%
Open code & weights
MIT · Apache · NVIDIA OML
BUILDING A BETTER TOMORROWCLAIRE — RELEASING SOONOPEN WEIGHTS · OPEN CODEPURE-PYTORCH NEMOTRONRUNS ON A SINGLE GPUEMPERO AIBUILDING A BETTER TOMORROWCLAIRE — RELEASING SOONOPEN WEIGHTS · OPEN CODEPURE-PYTORCH NEMOTRONRUNS ON A SINGLE GPUEMPERO AI
02Models4 ON HUGGING FACE · APACHE-2.0
FIG. 02 — Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-Opus-4.6-DistillApache-2.0
Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-Opus-4.6-Distill

Reasoning-focused fine-tune of Qwen3.5-9B trained to produce <think>-tagged chains before answering. Distilled from Claude Opus 4.6 + Qwen3.5 reasoning traces (~12.8k examples). QLoRA, single RTX 5090, ~4.5 hours.

Benchmarks
Token Acc
86.15
Eval Loss×100
48.09%
03MissionWHAT WE BUILD AND WHY
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Architecture portability

Frontier weights locked behind custom CUDA kernels are not really open. We re-implement architectures (Nemotron-H, Cascade-2) in pure PyTorch so the original weights load with bitsandbytes, train with QLoRA, and run on a single consumer GPU.

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Distillation at home

Reasoning and agentic-coding capability distilled from closed frontier models onto small open weights — RTX 5090, QLoRA, the whole pipeline. Dataset, training script, eval and weights all published together.

03

Datasets, public and raw

Six tasklist-* corpora generated by taskgen across math, code, science, creative writing and conversation. Apache-licensed code, public datasets, no quality gates. "Unfiltered" is in the name on purpose.

04

Tools we needed

claire is the flagship — a Rust-native, local-first coding agent that runs against any provider you have keys for. claude-code-proxy, taskgen and nanoAttnRes round out the loop. Built because we needed them; open because someone else might too.

06 — Dispatch

First in line for claire.

One letter every other Tuesday — and a single dispatch on the day claire ships with the install line. What we shipped, what we read, the one thing we got wrong. No hype, no roadmap teasers. Cancel from any line.

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