a calm before the breakout

it’s been a while since i last wrote one of these. sixth semester just started, and it hit me the other day—i’m gonna be done with undergrad in a year. maybe a bit more, but still. kinda surreal. i’ve been moving between uni and sagea so fast that i hadn’t even noticed how much time passed. and rn, everything feels like it’s picking up momentum again. vora’s been getting real attention. people are starting to notice what we’ve been building. and now, we just quietly introduced something new—sage-nano. it’s a small 4b reasoning model we’ve been experimenting with. not just another scaled-up LLM, this one’s built differently. we’ve been calling the technique inverse reasoning. imagine a kind of bidirectional chain-of-thought, where instead of just predicting forwards, the model reasons backwards too. the early results? kind of wild. we’re wrapping up a short paper on it now. honestly, it might be one of the most exciting things we’ve made so far. something about it just clicks. and it’s cool seeing the team rally around it. everyone’s in the zone. we know we’ve got something special. we’ve also been pushing harder on the funding side. talking to more VCs, more funds. so far, no one’s signed the check yet, but we’re close. and i’m hopeful. the models run on basically anything, even old laptops or vps setups, but let’s be honest—if we want to make it real for people, through APIs, we’ll need serious compute. people want convenience. they want speed. they don’t care how efficient your model is if it takes three seconds to respond. so we’re building toward that, slowly. no investor yet, but it’s optimistic. and i think that’s what matters. we’re not desperate. we’re just moving, step by step, until it clicks. on the non-technical side, we’ve realized something big—we kinda suck at marketing. we’re all technical founders. we know how to ship. we know how to build. but when it comes to putting the right words in front of the right people, yeah... not our strong suit. we’re trying to change that. slowly learning, experimenting, seeing what clicks. we know the tech’s good. now it’s about making sure people feel that too. one thing that’s been cool to see—we’re getting popular among student devs. like, real traction. people sharing vora, remixing it, using it in projects. it’s a small thing, but it feels big to us. we built it for people like them. and us. oh, and one more thing. there’s this specific company here in nepal in the telephony space. no names. but we’re coming for them. we know what we’ve got, and once the funding lands, they’re on our list. not in a toxic way. just in a “we can do this better” kind of way. and we will. the semester just started, and there’s already this restless energy in the air. like something’s about to change. and honestly, i’m here for it. ciao, basab