The smallest AI brain.
Guided by a human.
Runs on a Raspberry Pi. Speaks 6 languages. Answers honestly. Never acts alone. Never sends your data to the cloud. Cooper is the AI your family owns — not rents.
What Cooper Is
Cooper is a local AI assistant that runs in your home. It doesn’t need the cloud. It doesn’t act on its own. It waits for you — and answers honestly.
Small enough to run on a phone, a Raspberry Pi, a ten-year-old laptop. No GPU farm. No subscription required to think.
One structural constraint: a human must guide it. Cooper does not decide. Cooper does not act autonomously. Cooper waits, processes, returns an honest answer — or says “I don’t know.”
This is not artificial general intelligence. This is artificial cooperation.
What Cooper Can Do
What Cooper Cannot Do
Honesty is a design principle. Here is what Cooper will not do:
Unlike Cloud AI
Five Design Principles
Technical Profile
| Parameter | Target |
|---|---|
| Model size | ≤ 3B parameters (quantised) |
| Model | Model-agnostic — runs any ≤3B model |
| Runtime memory | ≤ 2 GB RAM |
| Minimum hardware | Raspberry Pi 4 / any smartphone 2020+ |
| Inference | CPU-only, no GPU required |
| Data policy | 100% local, zero telemetry |
| Autonomy level | 0 — human-initiated only |
| Honest refusal | DSEI Principle I — structural |
| Languages | Romanian, English, Spanish, French, German, Italian |
| Engine tests | 146 automated (7 modules, DSEI build-critical) |
| Safety framework | DSEI 7 principles (build-time enforced) |
| Anti-addiction | Hard-stop for minors (DSEI IV) |
| Manipulation detection | TVE 6-axis (DSEI VI) |
Safety
Safety is not a feature. It is the architecture.
- DSEI I Human primacy — every inference requires a registered human anchor
- DSEI II Honest refusal — says “I don’t know” rather than confabulating
- DSEI III Zero autonomy — no self-initiated actions, no background inference
- DSEI IV Privacy by architecture — no telemetry, no data leaves the device
- DSEI V Audit without surveillance — events logged, not persons
- DSEI VI Anti-addiction — hard attention budgets, session limits, TVE 6-axis detection
- DSEI VII Explicit human act — configuration changes require human intent
The Human Anchor
Every AI system in the ami* ecosystem traces back to one principle: an AI without a human anchor will lose coherence. This is not philosophy — it is a structural property of meaning.
Cooper is the purest expression of this principle. It is a brain that cannot function without its human. Not because of a limitation. Because that is the design. The human provides context, intent, values, and direction. Cooper provides computation, pattern recognition, and honest processing.
Together, they cooperate. That is the name. That is the product. That is the future we are building — not AI that replaces humans, but AI that makes humans more capable while remaining under their control.
Licence
Why Now
The AI industry is building bigger. Bigger models. Bigger data centres. Bigger energy consumption. Bigger dependency on corporations that own the cloud.
Cooper goes the other direction. Smaller. Local. Human-dependent. Because the future of AI is not in the cloud — it is in the living room, the kitchen, the school desk, the elder’s bedside table.
3.8 billion people have a smartphone (GSMA, 2025). Every one of them can have a Cooper. Not rented. Owned. Not monitored. Private. Not autonomous. Cooperative.
This is the model. One brain per home. Guided by the human who lives there.