Agentic sessions are where our features get built now, which makes the harness they run in a piece of infrastructure. We are building our own, called micro-zero, and connecting it to the organisation's memory. The zero is where every session starts.
An assistant session starts knowing nothing about the organisation, and no context window is ever going to hold fourteen years of decisions. We pointed retrieval at our own vault instead. The idea is a weekend's work to try; whether it holds up in daily use is what we intend to find out.
Quantised models running on a workstation, a Pi or a phone. The interesting constraint is memory bandwidth rather than FLOPS, which changes which hardware is worth your money, and a capable model on a machine you own means no prompt ever leaves the building.
A phrase that barely existed last year is now in ministerial speeches. It was introduced by the company that sells the accelerators, and the definition it carries makes buying those accelerators the proof of sovereignty.
A first-person-view quadcopter with a warhead taped to it costs a few hundred pounds and destroys a vehicle worth several million. The airframe is a toy, the radio is a toy, and the only component that was ever hard is now a model that fits on a board you can buy. That is a cost inversion, and cost inversions do not reverse.
A neural network won CASP13 outright, and a sequencer that runs off a laptop's USB port costs less than a server. Biology is becoming a field where the expensive instrument is a model and the cheap instrument fits in a coat pocket, which changes who is able to do the work and who ends up holding the data.
