Models
Brie · Qwen 2.5 3B
Highest specialization
91.2%
in-domain win rate
Deepest philosophical alignment. Aggressive domain specialization while retaining general competence. Recommended starting point.
huggingface.co →Brie · Llama 3.2 3B
Best general preservation
80.4%
in-domain win rate
Strong domain performance without sacrificing breadth. Best for use cases where general capability still matters.
huggingface.co →Brie · Qwen 2.5 0.5B
Consumer hardware
72%
comprehensive win rate
Runs locally on an M4 MacBook at negligible cost. Proof that domain adaptation works at sub-1B scale.
huggingface.co →Intellectual territory
Continental philosophy
Phenomenology
Existentialism
Critical theory
Speculative reasoning
Literary analysis
Cultural criticism
Creative essays
How it was made
Trained on 1,213 examples authored through iterative discussions — not scraped, not synthetically generated. The dataset took years to develop; the training cost $3. Full methodology →