https://anveai.com/notes Engineering notes from building ANVE, a private AI appliance for offices whose work cannot leave the building, including what goes wrong. en-IN Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:59:19 +0000 https://anveai.com/notes/two-ai-boxes-neither-is-for-an-office https://anveai.com/notes/two-ai-boxes-neither-is-for-an-office Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:55:00 +0000 Neither is for an office. Ghost Core and Oki Home are personal AI computers for one owner at home; an office needs named users, a record of who confirmed what, and a box it owns. https://anveai.com/notes/the-4b-question https://anveai.com/notes/the-4b-question Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Zero misassigned owners across 20 action items on a 4B model, once the prompt says the owner is the doer. n=5, what it does and does not prove. https://anveai.com/notes/who-cannot-use-ai-at-all https://anveai.com/notes/who-cannot-use-ai-at-all Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000 The institutions that hold the most sensitive records have no way to use cloud AI. Counted from public registries: about 27,000 public institutions and 144,106 private ones in India. https://anveai.com/notes/why-we-are-not-selling-you-a-computer https://anveai.com/notes/why-we-are-not-selling-you-a-computer Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000 A Mac Studio with Ollama is the right answer for one person. ANVE is the project of turning that computer into something an office of 10 to 200 people can use. https://anveai.com/notes/pricing-a-private-ai-appliance https://anveai.com/notes/pricing-a-private-ai-appliance Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Three of five tiers were underwater: the DRAM shortage, the GeForce EULA, the retraction, and what changed.