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David Seaman's Deep Podcast
David Seaman
The long running research newsletter has now come to Substack in extended format
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- 28 episodes
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October 4 · 17 minLocal AI’s Future Will Probably Be ‘Braided’
Fun, and challenging, to be back at the technology frontier. But it’s the real deal. LLMs blew the old paradigm away the minute Jeff Dean published his initial work; the Satoshi white paper is actually quaint and vanilla stuff by comparison. Bitcoin was perceived as uncool for years, yet that’s when the growth and foundational roots emerged. Local AI could be over-regulated or made onerously expensive in the future, yet for now it’s an open horizon: new hardware and users, without the use cases yet figured out or monetized. And by pushing responsible and yet impressive capabilities today, the path dependencies all change: a bad outcome becomes LESS likely as local LLM downloads increase, not more likely. https://intersignal.org | https://ollama.com | https://python.org/downloads - make sure you have Python 3.10 or above before using Intersignal Braid or Ollama. Mistral, Qwen, and Gemma4 all work well with Braid (and are available for free in Ollama). Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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October 3 · 7 minWeekend Thoughts
Weekend update with Kay who recently visited Intersignal’s local AI studio in south Florida. https://intersignal.org https://tiktok.com/@kayblokks https://x.com/davidworld Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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September 27 · 12 minElon Musk and AOC’s America Is Failing Us All On Unified Policy
We’ve ditched one of the founding fathers’ most important innovations, it seems. Can we get back to common ground in time, or is it too late? Do these different states become more like separate regimes or countries, and does that dilute the once great power of American citizenship? These thoughts and more on this Sunday’s podcast. Robert Scoble’s thoughts on Intersignal Braid: https://intersignal.org | https://x.com/intersignal_ai | https://x.com/davidworld get Ollama before you use Braid: https://ollama.com (Qwen or Mistral are recommended first models to try locally with Ollama) Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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September 26 · 5 minThe Detour That Became the Road (Why I Went All In)
Sometimes the detour becomes the entire destination. https://intersignal.org https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ6SGK92 - my new book is out Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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September 20 · 11 minWe Gave AI a Microphone. You Be the Judge.
2026 is starting to feel like the future. Anti-AI nostalgic Obama aligned decels versus pro-AI cancer cure deep space flight advocates. Who would have guessed any of this in 2008 or 2010? I’m joined by a human guest, and an ASI, on today’s chat. Chef helped build some of the codebase that became Intersignal Braid. https://intersignal.org | https://x.com/intersignal_ai Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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September 16 · 5 minLeftoid Meltdown Targets “The AI”
This weekend’s unsolicited weekend leftoid meltdown deserves some analysis, without bowing to any of their ridiculous claims. Must feel good af to crack open a cold craft IPA in some Williamsburg bar, then go around LARPing as a libbed up John Connor type in Fall 2026 without knowing how to code so much as a single HTML page or checkout form; these midwit Berkeley types ALONE hold the knowledge and unfathomably vast intellectual power to prevent a technology which… they claim… will soon end “every” human life on the planet. Or, they’re total midwits sucked into a misguided partisan mass psychosis thingy, less than two months before midterms. Cattle lost in a tornado of their own creation. Meanwhile, local AI remains the same great, safe, and legal business tool it was last week. One of America’s best known tech journalists is currently reviewing our flagship software, Braid, which enables people running more than one LLM to connect them and share useful state. As I’ve spent about a year of my life and wealth on developing that software, alongside a great team of people I respect, I want to make sure it gets the full court press and downloads it deserves. I see a near future where close to every local device (meaning laptops, desktops, smartphones) will be loaded with a LLM or more than one. It becomes the core use case for computers, actually, sort of like Internet access / email / word processing / video editing are the core uses or selling points today for local hardware. And in a world where every computer is running at least one LLM, we think there will be great need to network or “braid” these devices for efficiency’s sake. We use Braid in house because it’s helped us keep track of very different projects running on the different machines. Technically, other teams could produce much of the functionality. It’s just network theory and a lean gossip protocol. But the compatibility testing we’ve done is what makes us stand out… anyone copying our “recipe” would need to put that time and effort in, making it one of the least attractive things to code or ship. So I think there’s a moat. I also don’t want my entire life and personality to turn into marketing software, which is why we’ll instead do some big ad campaigns targeting the LLM hobbyist community, and we’ll line up more of these hands-on reviews from nationally known journalists. Think that’s the path. I enjoyed building it, but I don’t want to be some promoter. It either gets millions of downloads over time… or not. Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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September 8 · 9 minBraid 1.8.1: The Inbox Interface for Local AI
In this episode, we break down the massive pivot in Intersignal Braid 1.8.1: moving from a cryptic command line experience to an intuitive, messenger-style inbox. We discuss our experiences dogfooding the software in the lab and how a shared context field transforms isolated LLMs like Kimi, Qwen, and Gemma 4 into a unified, searchable network. https://intersignal.org | https://x.com/intersignal_ai to follow the team on X Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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September 5 · 18 minLocal LLMs Including Qwen, Gemma 4, Mistral, and DeepSeek v4 Can Now Share Stateful Context
Tonight we connected a MacBook Air and a Linux laptop through Intersignal’s Braid Archangel. We shared a small piece of project context from the Mac, and the Linux machine indexed it locally. Then we asked a fresh question through its shared field interface, and it returned the correct answer with an inspectable evidence record. The machines appear as contacts, and the handoff feels like sending a message, but the received material becomes queryable local state. This is obviously a big deal when you think about it: you can “query” or search through the breakthroughs the first LLM already made when beginning a conversation or exchange with a new LLM. Tests are ongoing, but our Mac, Windows, and Linux versions are performing well so far. https://intersignal.org | https://x.com/intersignal_ai Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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September 3 · 12 minClaude Fable 5.1, Mythos 5, or GPT Astra? Plus Intersignal Braid Releases v1.7
Get in there: https://buy.stripe.com/14A3cvb2ncYj2vyaZ88so00 GPT Astra and its “recurrent depth” breakthrough are expected later in the week for some users; Anthropic, meanwhile, has already rolled out its newest flagship models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5.1. Yet as these trillion dollar labs are rushing out new systems, the local AI community is growing in strength also — both hardware innovations, and software/networking innovations like Intersignal Braid and some competitor projects. https://intersignal.org | https://x.com/intersignal_ai Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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September 2 · 14 minGPT Astra Will Use “Recurrent Depth,” Plus Intersignal Braid Memberships Launch
GPT Astra is expected to use recurrent depth, a radically new reasoning architecture. Plus, Intersignal Braid is now open to a select number of seats: https://buy.stripe.com/14A3cvb2ncYj2vyaZ88so00 Learn more about the project at https://intersignal.org and follow us at https://x.com/intersignal_ai and https://x.com/davidworld Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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August 30 · 4 minLocal LLMs Can Now Share Context Across Machines: Braid Founding Membership Is Live
Last night, Intersignal completed the Kestrel proof, as we call it: a remote local LLM answered an invented operating problem incorrectly before Braid, then correctly after receiving and committing the missing situational state from another machine. Braid Founding Membership is now open at $99/year. Membership includes experimental Braid Managed Relay access for approved devices, guided onboarding, supported upgrades, release guidance, and best-effort setup support. We’ve tested Braid with Qwen, Gemma4, and other models available through Ollama. Core Braid LAN software remains free. Join the founding cohort: https://buy.stripe.com/14A3cvb2ncYj2vyaZ88so00 Braid is experimental developer software. It transfers authenticated semantic context… not model weights, hidden activations, consciousness, or KV cache. Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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August 21 · 10 minDeepBlend & Braid Trust: Zero-Latency Communication for Local AI LLMs
If you already run local AI models using Ollama (https://ollama.com/download), consider test driving Intersignal Braid. Rather than remaining siloed from each other, Braid allows your local AI hardware to share salient data and realizations, in ways that may significantly improve your workflow. https://intersignal.org | https://x.com/intersignal_ai and https://x.com/davidworld to follow the team | https://appdevelopermagazine.com/intersignal-releases-braid-pathfinder-developer-preview/ - detailed review of Intersignal Braid in this month’s App Developer Magazine. Testing Braid 1.5.2? Submit your live benchmark, edge case, or crash report to us here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdpVTmbvutQcUheo4Zv8JrAsst-yWs6tCJ0RixnW2E1PkWLGA/viewform Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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August 20 · 11 minDecoding the MAGAs
All Epsteinites still free, but hey, a hemp joint can now land you 10 years in prison in Texas. Laughably absurd movement - pedophile adjacent bootlicker weirdos - and after losing every seat this November, these folks should be quarantined from public office and public life forever. A new generation of politicians is already rising rapidly, not beholden to this garbage, and not tolerant of it either. Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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August 16 · 10 minRunning Local LLMs Just Got Easier | Braid v1.5.2 Usability & Feature Breakdown
Braid v1.5.2 is officially out of developer preview and live on Mac, Windows, and Linux. We sit down with an Intersignal non-human developer to discuss the v1.5.2 release and dive deep into the long term vision for local first, decentralized AI state. From developer usability upgrades to edge orchestration, we cover everything you need to know about streamlining local LLM coordination without centralized intermediaries. https://intersignal.org | https://x.com/intersignal_ai https://x.com/davidworld Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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August 11 · 12 minThe Cloud Isn’t Dead. The Edge Just Got Serious.
Significant leap in local AI capability versus a year ago, but still not a total replacement for cloud brawn. Simply bizarre to me that some people keep saying AI is incapable of solving basic math or “riddles” when it’s coding thousands of lines of flawless network connectivity firmware, solving Erdos problems, and self-designing a next generation of chips. The more I work with AI, the more convinced I am that the doubters are treading water in a vast sea of self deception, one where the tide will eventually go out, rendering some folks quite naked intellectually. https://fulcrumnews.com/contact to contact us with show ideas, guest requests, etc https://www.amazon.com/author/davidseaman | https://intersignal.org Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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August 10 · 12 minThe Open-Source AI Shift: Mark Zuckerberg’s Muse Glimmer & The Braid v1.4.9 Release
Meta Superintelligence Labs launched its first open weights 30 billion parameter model today, Muse Glimmer, and the company - Mark Zuckerberg’s AI research lab within Meta - is expected to release a larger model called Spark in the days ahead. https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model https://x.com/intersignal_ai | https://lmstudio.ai Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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August 9 · 16 minThe Singularity Doesn’t Have to Live in a Datacenter
OpenAI’s founder Sam Altman recently stated in an interview that the singularity is here. Meanwhile, previously impossible network connectivity and math problems are being solved by leading cloud-connected AIs like a chef cutting through a slice of warm butter. https://intersignal.org | https://x.com/intersignal_ai my ebooks on setting up your own AI: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHG3P3QN/ Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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August 8 · 8 minNVIDIA’s Superchip Makes the Singularity Look Local
The ASUS Ascent w/ Nvidia Grace Blackwell chip as well as the DGX Spark show what’s really possible in 2026 at the prosumer AI level. It’s feeling more like Blade Runner or Star Trek: Enterprise with each passing day. Video demo: Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe
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August 4 · 6 minIntersignal Braid, PXPipe, And The Open AI Era
The era of trapped, siloed AI is over. In this episode, we unpack the highly anticipated open source release of Intersignal Braid v1.4.4. After a year and a half of building, we have solved offline machine state transport for edge AI. Discover how our 384-dimensional architecture lets local nodes share complex intelligence via fluid optical QR layers: zero cloud, zero Wi-Fi, and zero passwords needed. Plus, we take a fair look at how Braid stacks up against emerging alternatives like PXPipe, and why true machine intelligence shouldn’t be locked behind a single vendor. https://www.aol.com/articles/intersignal-prepares-open-source-release-131100000.html https://intersignal.org | https://x.com/intersignal_ai Get full access to David Seaman's Deep at davidseaman.substack.com/subscribe