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DiaLabs · co-founded

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An open-source AI and ML organisation that releases free products, models and developer tools. Every release starts as a question.

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The notebook

Every release was a question.

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    01

    App

    PatentIQ

    “Can a model grade a patent draft the way a reviewer would, if it checks the citations first?”

    Method
    Next.js → a Cloudflare Worker (D1, R2) → an Express service for the PDFs, live patent checks and the model.
    Result
    Live in beta for mentors and their students; about 60% of the commits are his.
    Live · betaLive Code

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    02

    App

    DiaChat

    “Can a companion feel like a friend without a single chat leaving your device?”

    Method
    A Gemma 3 1B fine-tune served in-browser with WebLLM on WebGPU, CPU fallback included.
    Result
    Live, with the model running on the visitor’s own GPU.
    LiveLive Code

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    03

    Model

    dia-convo-v1.2c

    “Can a 7B model learn to hold a supportive, therapy-style conversation?”

    Method
    Qwen2.5 7B Instruct fine-tuned on a therapy dataset, published 4-bit on Hugging Face.
    Result
    Published as 4-bit weights anyone can download.
    On Hugging FaceHugging Face Code

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    04

    Tool

    Stryde

    “Can a browser turn a football clip into match stats without uploading it?”

    Method
    YOLO11 runs on your device via ONNX Runtime Web; the video never leaves the browser.
    Result
    Live; the video never leaves the browser.
    LiveLive Code

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    05

    Bot

    Dia Moderator

    “Can one dashboard keep Discord, WhatsApp and Telegram groups in line?”

    Method
    Express runs three bots: profanity and spam warnings, Gemini summaries, WhatsApp QR login.
    Result
    Live, running three bots from one place.
    LiveLive Code

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    06

    Site

    DiaLabs website

    “Can a lab’s homepage look like nobody else’s?”

    Method
    Next.js App Router with shadcn/ui and Tailwind; designed by Itesh.
    Result
    Live, in a retro-brutalist style he designed.
    Livedialabs.tech Code

Also from the lab, by the rest of the team:

  • A 27k-pair conversation dataset
  • A watermark detector
  • Dia, a voice and text assistant

Next experiment

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