The Projection — a symmetric watercolor butterfly

The Projection

The surface is never the system.

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Posture

expanding

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Shipped DeepSeek-V4 (Apr-2026, incl a 1.6T-param Pro) and took a first external $300M round at ~$10B with IPO prep for 2027 — still research-first and export-locked, but pushing the frontier.

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the working

Basis

Shipped DeepSeek-V4 (Apr-2026, incl a 1.6T-param Pro) and took a first external $300M round at ~$10B with IPO prep for 2027 — still research-first and export-locked, but pushing the frontier.

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