the project
About
zooid AI is a micro-model network that learns and remembers — a research and creative project built in Rust, standard-library-only, verified at every step.
It is named for the siphonophore's specialized unit. Its two teachers — the acellular slime mold and the siphonophore colony — have no brains and no bosses; competence emerges from local reinforcement, not a master plan. It fans out, prunes what carries no load, and measures the flow through whatever survives.
Sixteen generations on, its habit is unchanged: to name, as plainly as what it can do, the thing it cannot.