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Chris Hall
Member #1,711FounderL2Founder, Saient
founder of saient local-first ai
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AI agent persistence: evidence-first research on memory, goal continuity, checkpoints, failures, and long-horizon agency in Saient
ai-agentsartificial-intelligencelong-horizon-agentsmemoryreproducibility
Saient — on-device mobile AI: local LLM chat, SDXL image gen, and Wan2.1 text-to-video, no cloud
Quartz — custom CUDA/Vulkan GGUF inference engine + SD1.5/SDXL image and video generation (Rust, no llama.cpp)
androidcudaggufllm-inferenceon-device-ai
Saient desktop app — public download artifacts
Single source of truth for the Saient palette — generates the desktop tokens.css and mobile theme.ts
Staticplay SD1 mobile v2 offline-first Android build with guided setup and ongoing speed optimization
About
Chris Hall is the founder of Saient, a company that builds local-first AI software for people who want to run models on their own hardware. Chris's public work includes Quartz, a Rust inference engine for GGUF models with image and video generation, and the Saient desktop and mobile apps, which run without a cloud service. Chris's current attention is on how AI agents hold their goals over long tasks, with work on recall, progress tracking, and saved state.
