Adam CoburnMaker · developer · author · creator

I'm growing an AI brain in public.

AdamAI is an open, free AI built from an empty file, with every step of its growth visible. It's the brain behind the robots I'm building, and you can watch it learn.

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Genesis · 0M parameters · 0B tokens read · next: Exodus 340M

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AIAdamAIAn open AI brain, grown from scratch in public.

RoboticsAutonomous Humanoid RobotThe body AdamAI is growing into.

Apps and gamesSuperFontanA fitness app for Fontan hearts.

Apps and gamesBattleMapsA strategy game twenty years in the making.

SoftwareFictionEngineAI storytelling.

SoftwareVibeVendorsA marketplace for vibe-coded apps.

RoboticsSpotMicro Robot DogA four-legged robot build.

BooksNeuralA novel.

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Growing a Brain

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Episode 2 · November 6, 2026

Grammar Came First, Facts Came Last

Lab notes from a third of the way through training AdamAI Genesis, a 114-million-parameter model we're growing from scratch.

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What the brain has learned so far

Genesis, the current model, is recorded at every stage of training so we can see what it learns, and when.

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114Mparameters in Genesis

10Btokens it reads

340MExodus, the next brain

Step 500GrammarIt learns that "the keys to the cabinet" take "are".

Step 750CopyingAn induction head forms: it can repeat a pattern it saw earlier.

Step 4,750FactsParis becomes its top answer for the capital of France.

Step 6,550Past GPT-2 smallIt beats GPT-2 small on its own held-out text.

Robotics

The brain behind the robots

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The robots are the bodies AdamAI is growing into. The humanoid build, the robot dog and the camera projects are where a brain meets the real world: seeing, moving and deciding what to do next.

The humanoid robot