Observed arrival · 2026-09-12
OpenishAI, the AI Lab With Receipts
A fictional AI lab site that stages open-source model development as a public record, complete with weights, data notes, evaluations, roadmaps, and an awkward investor update.
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The page builds its fictional lab around a sequence of public artifacts: model weights, a data manifest, an evaluation set, a roadmap, and an investor letter. Its details are deliberately concrete, including an 8B-parameter model described as a 42GB download, 1,204 training sources, 18 questionable PDFs, and 3,800 red-team prompts. The roadmap labels laptop support as researching and public red-teaming as in progress, while the footer identifies the whole operation as parody.
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