What the numbers look like
Three pictures of the same story: the machines' homework, the art scores, and the watchdog.
Pictures made each day
More pictures, day after day, on roughly the same money.
What a thousand pictures costs
The same work, getting cheaper. Lower is better. Only counts money spent making pictures — days that went on teaching the models instead aren't shown.
Teaching the machines vs making pictures
Two jobs, two costs — graphics cards only. Most bills arrive as one lump for a whole day and don't say which job the money went on, so that part is shown as its own bar rather than guessed at.
Of the — we can put a name to: — teaching, — pictures.
Grading its own homework
A computer checks the practice questions and marks the ones with bad maths. It can only mark the ones that contain sums.
How good the pictures are
Every picture gets a score out of ten. Here's how many landed at each score.
Keeping watch
A program checks the machines on a loop and raises a hand when something looks wrong.
The foundry floor
Not a product page — a working forge you can walk around.
The Timeline →
Day 1 to now, one card per day: what shipped, what burned, what broke. The whole build as raw history.
Raw Data →
Every dataset behind this site — spend, training runs, incidents — as tables and downloadable JSON. Nothing hand-typed.
The Scars →
Every incident and postmortem, published. The forge keeps its burn book in the open.
Certificates →
The trophy wall: every model era's birth certificate, from the first merge to the reigning champion.
The Judge →
Blind arena. Pick your favorite render prompt-by-prompt, then see how your taste stacks up against the official verdict.
The Vault →
Type a word — the forge probably already made yours. Graded renders with real scores and forge serials.
Live Forge Floor →
Every forge in the fleet, streaming renders in real time — watch them land seconds off the GPU, raw and ungated.
The Gem Dash →
We drag-raced eleven GPUs on our own model for ~$7 and published every number. Renders per dollar has a king.
The Anvil →
Live-ish cam: the freshest preview off the 24/7 adapter forge, straight from the training loop.
The Ledger →
The whole campaign, in public: every GPU dollar, every burn day, straight off the books — receipts included.
Card art →
The hand-picked pieces, each with the score our own judge gave it. Click any one to see it full size.
Why this forge
Not a raw AI dump — every render runs a gauntlet before it earns a place.
Quality-scored
Each image is aesthetic-scored and CLIP-matched to its category. Only the top scorers survive the gate.
Our own metal
Renders come from our own fine-tuned checkpoint line — trained, judged, and crowned in the open.
Clean masters
Shadow-free, edge-cut, full-res — the same gated renders that become gallery pieces and playable cards.
Forged in the open
Every era blind-judged, every GPU dollar in the public ledger. No secrets, no black box.
Get in touch
Want a whole set forged around your world, or a custom category rendered to order? The forge takes commissions.