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- Updated handbook/_meta.json to properly organize navigation - Fixed duplicate entries by removing files that belong in subfolders - Updated why folder title to 'Why does Jan exist?' - Cleaned up why/_meta.json with proper titles for Open Superintelligence and Open-Source sections
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title: "Why Jan exists"
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description: "Short answer: Open Superintelligence."
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---
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# Why does Jan exist?
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import { Callout } from 'nextra/components'
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<Callout type="info">
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Short answer: Open Superintelligence.
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</Callout>
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In 1879, [Edison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison) lit a single street in [Menlo Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_Park,_California). What mattered wasn't the bulb. It was that power could reach homes, schools, and factories.
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Electricity changed the world only when it became universal. Standard plugs, cheap generation, lines everywhere. People stopped talking about electricity and started using light, cold chains, and machines.
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[Superintelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence) is the same kind of story. The point is who gets the power, on what terms, and at what cost. If intelligence is open, portable, and cheap, it becomes a utility. If it isn’t, it becomes a gate.
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Jan exists to push intelligence toward the first path: Open Superintelligence you can run on your cheap laptop.
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## What history teaches
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> The world is made, and can be remade.
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Every industrial wave redefined new defaults of our daily lives:
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- [Factories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory) created the modern job
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- [Electricity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity) created the modern home
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- [Railroads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport#History) and [telegraphs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy#History) created the modern nation
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- [The Internet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet) created the modern world
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Open Superintelligence will create what comes next. What we're interested in is who is going to write the new defaults and share in the gains.
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Technology doesn’t choose its path, people do. Power accrues to whoever designs, deploys, and profits from the system:
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- If intelligence is closed and centralized, the gains concentrate
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- If it is open, local, and participatory, the gains spread
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We choose the second.
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## What we're making at Jan
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Jan is building Open Superinteligence. It's one product that bundles models, tools, guardrails, and connectors in a way everybody can run on a laptop, a home server, or the web.
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- Open-source, so everyone can study, reproduce, improve
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- Building together, so progress compounds in public
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- AI for everyone, so it runs where people work, under their control
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### Co-operation > competition
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We believe progress is cooperative before it is competitive. People grow by working together. We've chosen [to stand on open shoulders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants). We use, contribute to, and fund open-source projects. When something exists and works, we don't reinvent the wheel to commercialize it - we upstream fixes, write docs, and make it easier to run.
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Open Superintelligence is how we make that true at the scale of intelligence.
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Happy to see you in this journey. Join our [community](https://discord.gg/Exe46xPMbK). |