At Lumen, we are giving capable LLMs, the ability to imagine ideas into existence.
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What is Lumen trying to do?
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A machine is something that reduces human effort and makes our lives easier. The bed we sleep on and the tree that makes oxygen, for life on Earth, are both machines, similar to CNC machines and integrated circuits.
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Machines are at the heart of economies, doing the difficult work we once manually completed. We see machines in mines, agriculture, power production, biotech, medicine, and in all other important parts of our infrastructure.
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The problem is that inventing and shipping products is tremendously consuming from a time, intellectual, and financial perspective. For those amongst us with ambitious visions, we desire to remake expensive machines instead of buy them, because of the extreme costs associated with them. Currently it is impossible to, without great resources, to design machines correctly from scratch and obtain kits that cost close to the material constituents, within a few weeks.
We are addressing this issue by enabling the creation and distribution of a technologically advanced, implicitly licensed, community-built "Lego-like" set where each component is understood and capable of being remixed with other parts, by an LLM under your command. ​Each user has the option to earn by making "Lego" bricks on Lumen and set licensing terms so that other users can use their creation to get a high-quality tested design for their invention/"Lego". Creators get to set a diverse set of licensing terms to make their inventions more attractive for remixing. Aluminium extrusion, ESP32s, Brushless motors, advanced EV batteries, are some of the thousands of legos that can be remixed by talking to an LLM.
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Instead of conventional inventing, where you have to know about a diverse set of topics and use software built for you, we build an LLM that knows how to use the "lego-like" blocks, and has design software built for it, so that the LLM can help with the details of putting the blocks together, enabling you to make a reliable version of your vision an order of magnitude faster.
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Not only would this help with prototyping inventions and innovations, this would help entrepreneurs and established businesses all the way till mass production.
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Lumen core is a free software that allows you to have a CoPilot on your desktop. It helps us with the questions we have about information we copy or screenshot. It connects to the OS to get access to the clipboard and Desktop screenshots, if you allow it to run. It has short term memory that can be reset. Live mode reads through the top google links. We use Claude as the base model to protect data privacy. There are no monthly subscriptions and no daily usage limits. To use it, copy text and type your question in the popup. Download for Macs with apple silicon, by pressing the apple icon.