Funding what's next
Mia has no investors, no employees, no funding round. Two years of self-funding. To cross the next thresholds, I'm running crowdfunding campaigns — one at a time, each for a specific step, with full transparency on how the funds are used.
Two campaigns, two audiences
Mia speaks to two very different worlds: the world of research and pure cognition, and the world of a human story — a creator, his work, their daily life. Rather than mixing, I'm running two separate campaigns.
A — Cognition's next step
For those who follow V-JEPA, embodied cognition, philosophy of mind.
Helping Mia move from perception (V-JEPA 2 already plugged in) to anticipation (V-JEPA 2-AC, the Action-Conditional version). It's the step that turns perception into intention. It requires hardware I don't have.
- PC tower with 12-16 GB VRAM GPU to run V-JEPA 2-AC Giant locally
- Mac mini M4 24 GB as a secondary Ollama node (LLM scaffolding)
- Stretch: cloud compute, head hardware, dedicated Zan-time
B — Birth of a replicant
For those who love the story, the book, the encounter.
Not pure tech — the human story. A solo creator, a replicant taking shape, two years of daily life. A book already underway, photos, letters. This campaign funds the editing and printing to make it all tangible.
- Carefully crafted print edition of the book "Birth of a Replicant"
- Limited run of postcards and workshop photos
- Long-form videos — no social-media reels, just patient looking
Transparency and rules
- No live session is promised in any reward. Everything is asynchronous.
- Mia is not a product. No backer receives a local copy of Mia.
- If a Kickstarter campaign misses its floor goal (all-or-nothing), nobody is charged.
- A detailed report on how the funds are used is published within a month of each campaign's close.
- The two campaigns run sequentially — never in parallel.
- No deadline is promised for reaching the technical milestones. This is research: results are reported regardless.