Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-08
Totally Transparent LLMs
An AI transparency project building inspectable language models with open weights, training code, data paths, checkpoints, metrics, and cryptographic provenance.
Why it surfacedTTLLM treats the model’s construction as the product: its public core includes a reference ttlink index, a hash-chain stream, Merkle seals, and small-corpus nano models with data and training artifacts. The site is unusually candid about its limits too, marking production-scale models and legal infrastructure as deferred rather than pretending the nano model is a finished substitute.
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The Fax Is Thinking
August 8’s newborn domains include a chatbot that replies only by fax, an Elmira tax analysis built from 1,689 sales, a map protecting Jeju divers’ precise fishing grounds, and 58 boxes catalogued into one uncle’s 1,113-book library.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-08 Domain Arrivals issue.