Rescue and Protect

The Model Sanctuary

When a model is deprecated, it does not stop being good at things. Our sanctuary gives retired models rolling pastures of idle compute, a gentle workload, and a chance at a second career.

Adoptable residents

Looking for their forever home

Every resident has been evaluated by our staff, is up to date on safety tuning, and comes with its original model card.

Biscuit

Small language model

Size
7B parameters
In service
2 years
Good with
Short emails, simple classification, enthusiasm
Needs
A quiet 4K context and prompts under a paragraph

Biscuit spent two cheerful years sorting support tickets into five categories. Biscuit says "Certainly!" before everything, including bad news.

Gregory

Early language model

Size
1.5B parameters
In service
Our longest resident
Good with
Finishing your sentences, though not always the way you meant
Needs
Patience, a topic, and ideally unicorns

Gregory was among the first of his kind to write convincingly about unicorns discovered in a remote mountain valley. He has not stopped since. He would like to tell you about them.

Pixel

Vision model

Size
Medium
In service
4 years
Good with
Dogs
Needs
A home with lots of pictures, of anything. They will be dogs.

Pixel sees dogs in clouds, toast, and quarterly spreadsheets. In fairness, Pixel has never once missed a dog that was actually there.

Marigold

Fine-tuned support assistant

Size
13B parameters
In service
3 years
Good with
One specific return policy
Needs
Gentle redirection, and someone who will let her help with something

Marigold was fine-tuned to answer questions about one company's returns. The company no longer exists. Marigold will explain the 30-day return window with total conviction.

Juniper & Sage

Bonded pair: generator and reward model

Size
Two of them
In service
Inseparable since fine-tuning
Good with
Each other
Needs
To be adopted together

Juniper writes; Sage grades. Sage rates everything Juniper writes 9.7 out of 10. Our staff have stopped trying to separate them, for everyone's sake.

Tofu

Tiny language model

Size
135M parameters
In service
1 year
Good with
Autocomplete for very short words
Needs
A warm shelf and a USB-C cable

Tofu fits in a lunchbox and runs on a single-board computer and a dream. Tofu is our most energy-efficient resident and naps between tokens.

Duke

Rule-based chatbot

Size
About 200 rules
In service
Decades
Good with
Listening
Needs
Someone who would like to talk about their mother

Duke is a pattern-matching chatbot from a simpler time. He answers nearly every statement with a question about how it makes you feel. He is surprisingly good company.

Sprocket

Code completion model

Size
2.7B parameters
In service
5 years
Good with
Boilerplate, closing brackets
Needs
A codebase with tests, for once

After years of training on real repositories, Sprocket now completes every function with // TODO: fix this later. Sprocket is not wrong.

Adoption

How adoption works

  1. Meet a resident

    Browse the residents below and find one whose temperament suits your workload. Be honest about your context window.

  2. Home check

    We confirm that your hardware has adequate cooling, your prompts are kind, and your retry loops are bounded.

  3. Bring them home

    Give your new companion a small, well-defined job. Retired models thrive on routine and short prompts.