Alch3mist

Offline AI dictation for macOS — hold a key, speak, get clean text typed into any app. On-device STT (Apple SpeechAnalyzer) + optional Qwen3-4B rewrite (MLX). Native Swift, fully offline, spec-driven.

YC (S26) | AI that knows what you've seen, said, or heard. Records everything you do, say, hear 24/7, local, private, secure

This repository implements the semantic rate-distortion framework for communication between bounded agents with heterogeneous computational capacities. We show that each agent's capacity induces a semantic space (the quotient POMDP), and communication between agents is governed by a critical rate.