davidvgilmore

For those that have capable enough hardware, it's effectively free to run subtasks on-device. (just the marginal cost of additional electricity).

With Google's most recent 12b param Gemma model, even Mac users with just 16gb of unified memory can offload some tasks on-device.

Many of them are produced by Chinese labs. Some, like Neomotron, are U.S. made. And we support inference providers in both the U.S. and overseas.

If geography is important, we can restrict which geos inference takes place in. And if you don't want to use Chinese-trained models, you can use others like Mistral, Neomotron, Google's, or OpenAI's.

Four ways: (1) We are built specifically for Claude Code model routing. (2) We route at a subagent/subtask level. (3) We support on-device routing. (4) We have a built-in ML router trained specifically to route Claude Code subagent tasks. Its use is optional.

Yes - in short, open models like Deepseek, Mimo, Kimi, and GLM tend to complete tasks with less tokens and cost less per token than both Sonnet and Haiku. So those models are more cost efficient, and we often think of that as them having higher "capability-per-dollar" than Sonnet or Haiku.

Much of Claude Code's internal model routing ends up delegating tasks to Sonnet or Haiku, so by intercepting those calls and using open models instead, we often see better performance at a better price.

Your comment is fair. I don't love vibe coding as a category name. And somehow using vibe coding to describe something whose namesake, the Memex, had such virtuous ambitions feels cheap. But I ALSO want people to understand what our product does.

I want to make something that truly empowers people. Many of our users are tech savvy, but not coders. We decided to make a GUI because it allowed them to one-click install.

And we are closed source freemium right now because we're trying to find a revenue model that we can sustain ourselves with without being wholly dependent on VCs. We plan to open source components of Memex so it's more extensible in the future and to give back.

We were never going to have something that is worthy of the name memex on the first release. But our ambition is that with time and hard work, we have a chance.

Memex makes it easy to ideate, research, and build projects without writing a line of code. It's a fully chat based interface (not an IDE). Its GUI allows you to visualize data inline, perform deep research-esque queries, and create + run programs. It supports any programming language / tech stack that LLMs "know". It also comes with pre-built templates that allow you go from 0-60 on your project quickly.