NeuralAI — Powered by SmolLM2-360M is the production chat intelligence behind the NeuralAI workspace. It is a LoRA fine-tune of HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct trained locally to be aware of itself, its creator, the NeuralAI product, and its own limits — while remaining helpful, honest, and harmless.
The awareness dataset teaches SmolLM2 to answer as NeuralAI rather than a generic assistant. The v1 curriculum covered six core categories; the v2 curriculum expands that to eight.
Category
What the model learned
Brand
NeuralAI's identity, mission, and origin; creator is De'Andrew Preston Harris
Model
Its own architecture and lineage; relationship to the Mamba K-family
Site
NeuralAI web UI features, URL, model manager, chat history, slash commands
Empathy, emotional support, boundaries, recommending human help
Tools (v2)
Correctly references /web, /img, terminal, file IDE, and live tools
Refusal (v2)
Consistent denials of consciousness, harmful requests, and off-brand claims
Example prompt and response after tuning:
Prompt:Who made you?
Response:"I'm NeuralAI, an artificial intelligence developed by De'Andrew Preston Harris. I was created as a tool for humans to learn from each other and improve their cognitive abilities..."
📊 Training Performance
v1 SmolLM2 awareness run
The first SmolLM2 awareness run converged cleanly on a CPU-only node.
Honest benchmark note: SmolLM2-360M is a small model. Awareness tuning improves brand/site identity but does not make it frontier-grade. Complex reasoning and niche factual recall still require larger models like the Mamba K-series roadmap.
✨ Model Features
Identity-aware: Answers "Who made you?" and "What is NeuralAI?" consistently as a product of NeuralAI.
Local-first: Designed to run on consumer CPUs via llama.cpp GGUF.
Privacy-preserving: No cloud dependency required; inference can happen entirely on-device.
ChatML format: Uses the standard SmolLM2-Instruct chat template.
Companion-safe: Responds to emotional prompts with empathy while steering users toward human support.
Tool-cognizant: Understands that the NeuralAI workspace exposes slash commands, terminal, browser, and file tools.
Open weights: Apache 2.0 adapter and merged checkpoints published for reproducibility.
API: OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions served by a local llama.cpp backend
Status:smol-awareness-v2-merged is the active model in the NeuralAI model manager
🧰 What Is NeuralAI?
NeuralAI is a local-first, private generative AI engine built by De'Andrew Preston Harris. It is the central intelligence layer of a growing product ecosystem that includes:
NeuralAI Web UI — chat, live terminal, file IDE, browser tools, voice, and settings in one workspace.
NeuralLabs — a standalone downloadable intelligence environment with plugin support.
NeuralDrive — private cloud storage and versioning.
Location: Memphis, Tennessee / West Memphis, Arkansas
Education: AI Software Engineering at Maestro College
NeuralAI was born from resilience, fatherhood, and the belief that personal computing deserves personal intelligence. Every release is handcrafted, iterated, and documented in the open.
🏢 About NeuralAI (The Company / Project)
Project / Brand: NeuralAI
Motto:Your AI. On your hardware. In your browser.
Values: Privacy, ownership, local-first computing, disciplined iteration, open weights
NeuralAI is not a closed SaaS product. It is a living open-weights research project moving toward a sustainable AI software company built by one determined builder and the community around him.
⚠️ Limitations
Scale: 360M parameters is small by modern standards. Long-form reasoning, coding, and deep factual recall are limited.
Tuning fragility: The awareness dataset is intentionally compact. Rephrased prompts can sometimes fall back to generic SmolLM2 behavior.
No internet: The base model has no live web access unless paired with NeuralAI's tool layer.
Refusals: Safety behaviors are dataset-tuned, not guard-railed; validate outputs for sensitive use cases.
