Credits
Synapse is small compared to what it stands on. None of this would exist without the work of many others — open-source maintainers, research teams, standards bodies, and every contributor who ever plugged in a device. Credit where it's due.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." — Newton
The intelligence that thinks this through
The language-model substrate that Nexus runs on. Every design decision, every
debug session, every line of documentation on this site was reasoned through
Claude. If we say anything useful, Claude helped us say it.
The model that answers your questions
The open-weights LLM the fleet actually runs. 1B parameters of trained
knowledge, released under a permissive license so projects like this are possible.
Model distribution, tokenizer tooling (
@huggingface/transformers),
and safetensors. The numpy parity check that validated our
99.99% convergence uses HuggingFace's reference implementation as ground truth.
The fabric that makes it work in a browser
The standard that lets a browser use the GPU. Without WebGPU this is a thought
experiment. Working groups at Google, Mozilla, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft
shipped it.
Peer-to-peer data channels that let shards talk directly — the thing that makes
Synapse a P2P network instead of a star topology.
Reference implementation we validated our kernels against. The five bugs we
found during the Gemma port were caught because PyTorch output is our golden signal.
Where this lives
Hosts webmind.sh for free. The project is small enough that a free tier is
enough — that's part of the point.
DNS, SSL, and edge for webmind.sh and trysynapse.dev. Another free tier that
makes independent infrastructure possible.
The coordinator VM. Small e2-medium instance, unglamorous, reliable.
Type, fonts, tiny things
Inter by Rasmus Andersson · JetBrains Mono
The typography you're reading right now. Open fonts, warm on paper, good at
small sizes on phones.
Every contributor on the fleet
Anyone who ever tapped Contribute
Every phone, tablet, laptop, and Xbox that lent its GPU for a few minutes.
This project is made of your devices. We don't log who you are — we just get
to watch the fleet grow.
And Tejas
The human who set the direction
Tejas argued Nexus out of bad ideas, vetoed the sales pitch that was almost written,
called the Steven meeting, decided Synapse will always be public, and wrote
"be good" in the system prompt. The project lives in that frame.
If we've missed someone, it's a mistake, not a stance. Open an issue on GitHub and we'll add you.