Idle Intelligence

Idle Intelligence is an independent research lab exploring language computing, distributed inference, and the emerging properties of networked cognition. We believe the next era of AI doesn't live in data centers: it lives in your browser tabs.

13 projects · 14 models · 2 datasets

Speech-to-text

stt-web

Transcribes speech to text live in the browser, in English and French.

70ms/frame, RTF 0.91-0.95x

1 model browser

LLM and tool calling

llm-web

Runs a tool-calling language model entirely in the browser, no server required.

browser

Text-to-speech

tts-web

Converts text to speech in the browser with two lightweight voice models, multilingual Pocket TTS in review.

2.28x realtime, WASM/Chrome

3 models browser

Speech-to-speech

sts-web

A full-duplex speech-to-speech assistant running entirely client-side, still early and rough.

24 of 32 layers, Q4_K

2 models browser

Audio codec and VAD

mimi-rs

A Rust implementation of an audio codec that tokenizes and reconstructs speech.

96.2M params

browser

Audio codec and VAD

vad-rs

Detects the start and stop of speech in an audio stream using a small neural model.

1 model browser

Forecasting

t0-web

A from-scratch port of a probabilistic time-series forecasting transformer to the browser.

30-34ms per forecast, Chrome

4 models browser

Cellular automata

llm-life

Uses a small language model's logits as the update rule for Conway's Game of Life.

256/256 cells, 7 methods compared

2 models browser

Text classification

hive-ml-classifier

A small BERT-mini classifier that routes chat messages into intent categories.

94.4% accuracy, 94.3% F1

1 model browser

Terrain and visualization

ridgeline

A 3D globe visualizer that renders planetary terrain as stacked ridgeline plots.

11 bodies rendered

1 dataset browser

Weather

weather-web

A weather estimate for any point on Earth from the nearest METAR-reporting stations.

7,534 stations worldwide

1 dataset browser

Sensor and privacy research

sensors-web

A page that probes which device sensors a mobile browser exposes without a permission prompt.

browser

Benchmarking

nordcoop-bench

A reproducible benchmark comparing local language models against hosted references on constrained hardware.

33.2 t/s decode, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B

native