Is he working on that? I sincerely don’t know. I have seen some hand-waving in that direction, yes. I don’t follow the Discord, so I’ve no idea. I had a browse or two of Saorsa, but don’t think that is what you allude to above…? Perhaps someone who does follow Discord can update us?
I thought even when it was being hand-waved towards, it was in the famous category of “stuff that might be possible to add, once we’ve solved these other between 5 and 25 very hard things, some of which have never been successfully implemented in any project, which we don’t know how exactly we’d fit in but we’d certainly try if we could”.
The same category that native currency is in, incidentally, last I heard.
I think cynicism is generally unhelpful so I try avoid it, but the embrace of crypto and LLMs has been a bit much for me to choke down. I’ve waited till the dust settled, I’ve tried to give the benefit of the doubt, but here we are, this is the reality of this project now. There’s been no public service announcement to clarify where we really are at, so it’s up to people following the project to face the reality or not.
A second time, after which I will desist, I invite @Bux, @dirvine, @JimCollinson or anyone from MaidSafe to give us an insight into what the situation is. As ever, I’m very aware that I’m constructing a narrative here while filling in lots of blanks myself, and am willing to reconsider any of my conclusions. Honest communication from the project is thin on the ground, it really might help. Of course, feel free to ignore, it’s your choice.
In light of all this, perhaps you’ll forgive me for taking the hand-waving towards lightweight decentralised open-source cruelty-free Autonomi-native LLMs – which also somehow completely cut out the corporations doggedly fighting for their entrenched positions in the middle as guardians of the oracles? or something? – with the previously mentioned above-average grain of salt.
It’s not about loving OpenAI or not, it’s about fighting the centralisation of power seriously or not. I thought that MaidSafe understood in its DNA the playbook of the modern tech company - enclose a part of the commons that people didn’t realise could be enclosed, or alternatively create an entirely new chunk of commons, keep everything cool and free and friendly until people are locked in, and then monetise it, with ads, subscriptions, jack-up prices, whatever suits.
That’s what we’re living through with these LLMs, and nothing more. We’re just arriving now at the “ads & porn & jack up prices” stage. It’s being touted as (i) inevitable and (ii) a revolution, but it’s (i) not a law of physics, and (ii) a revolution in exactly nothing - centralisation and techno-utopianist fetishism before, centralisation and techno-utopianist fetishism after.
So I’m sorry for insisting so long-windedly on my point but allow me to say clearly: the only radical and sensible option here for someone who wants to fight against the centralisation of power and the enshittification of all things is to reject these LLM companies wherever possible, and more importantly, to publically fight back against the notion that this future is the only possible one.
Of course it isn’t. An awful lot of people (often non-techies) continue to reject this future, saying they don’t want “AI” in their browser, or their search bar, or their apps, or their fridge, or their watch, or their car, or anywhere, and they continue to be told - well, you’ll have it anyway! It’s a disgusting and very peculiar state of affairs, unforeseen in the history of products and consumption, as far as I can see.
MaidSafe could have been fighting this fight for internet users everywhere, but they chose the wrong path.
Old movies should be free, found some links for context. So many movies to see some day, maybe should be a new years resolution. 
that everything will be ok in the end. Good luck with that.