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A model that improves itself, and keeps the receipts.

Short films about Oracle7. Every number on screen is a measured held-out result. Anything simulated or not yet built is labelled on screen.

October 2026 · 10.0 and 10.1

Roadmap · 1:24

Built and ahead

The spiral from 6.0 to 20.0, filling in as each version passed its sealed test, with the failure left on it; the build roadmap with its estimates; the vision of the Slow Fire; and what the dates do and do not mean.

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10.1 · 1:27

Claude hands off, Oracle7 checks

A live session on the released 10.1: Claude hands it 26 repeated tasks, then 19 of its own answers written from memory before anything ran. Recorded in a terminal; long waits shortened and marked.

  • 23 of 26 tasks answered with evidence · 3 declined, with the reason
  • 19 claims: 13 confirmed · 2 cannot check · 4 contradicted, both answers shown

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10.1 · 0:56

What it is for

Two jobs beside another agent, what it does on its own, and the advantage: answers that can be checked again, an error rate that is measured, and failures that differ from a language model's.

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10.0 · 1:43

Ten versions, tested as one

Every internal version since 4.9 joined in one release and tested again as a whole.

  • v36b: 19 of 19 rows, run once
  • v35: 313 right, 3 wrong; 0 of 130 must-decline questions answered

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10.0 · 2:25

Oracle7 10.0, end to end

The released tree in one session: it verifies itself, talks, writes an essay, and makes a film for a problem. The real output.

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September 2026

Film 1 · 1:51

Oracle7 Everywhere

From one laptop to every connected machine: inside the model, the family, deep space, a city routed by trafficcop, sensors on farms, factory lines, watchtowers and buoys, and the one you talk to.

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Film 2 · 1:48

Twenty-Three Light-Hours

oracle7-deepspace, flown against a simplified safe-mode baseline on seven real spacecraft at their JPL Horizons positions.

  • 98.9% correct on 1,700 fresh faults · baseline 29.4%
  • 0 harmful actions
  • 9 rules admitted, 4 broken rules rejected by its own gate
  • ~106 KiB · 0.22 ms per tick

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Film 3 · 1:21

The Gate

One real failure, “ok thanks”, followed from the failure inbox through the fold worker and the exam to fold w472.

  • 454 held-out turns + 1,158 capability checks
  • pointer errors 15/20 → 0/20, nothing else moved
  • one of 212 folds in the chain

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Film 4 · 1:27

The Family

Six models, each with its measured card, and the numbers that are still red left on.

  • Vision 98.58% MNIST, cites its examples
  • Trafficcop 30/32 held-out routes
  • Chameleon 0 false completions
  • 69% of fresh questions still stop at the door

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Film 5 · 1:13

One Day

Twenty-four hours of a self-improving model, as a clock around the Earth: failures recorded, the 03:30 benchmark, repairs through the gate, and every service following the chain.

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