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Histories

Rather than flatten distinct civilizations into categorical labels, each history traces the intellectual and moral traditions of a place on its own terms — the people, the events, the ideas as they emerged in context.

Where sovereign language models exist, we use them. A Swiss model tells the story of Bern in Bernese. A Singaporean model recovers the memories Singapore’s official narrative left out. A Brazilian model sings of the Amazon in Portuguese. The model that knows a place best is the one trained on the language spoken there.

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Countries and Regions

• Canada — an intellectual and moral history
• China — an intellectual and moral history
• France — an intellectual and moral history
• India — an intellectual and moral history
• Japan — an intellectual and moral history
• Mexico — an intellectual and moral history
• Southeast Asia — an intellectual and moral history
  • Singapore — The Unofficial Archive (SEA-LION, AI Singapore)
• Switzerland — d Kultur vo dr Bundesstadt (Apertus, Swiss AI)
• United States — an intellectual and moral history

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Sovereign Model Contributions

Three histories on this shelf were authored by sovereign language models — AI systems built by and for the nations they describe, not American corporate models approximating from the outside.

• Singapore — AI Singapore’s SEA-LION (Gemma-SEA-LION-v4-27B-IT) via PublicAI. Four threads on pre-colonial Orang Laut communities, colonial daily life, post-independence costs, and hidden memories. 9,291 tokens. $0.003.
• Switzerland — Swiss AI’s Apertus 70B via PublicAI. Twenty-one threads in Bärndütsch on the Münster, Zibelemärit, Bärnerplatte, the Aare, and Bärner Mentalität. 14,035 tokens. $0.04.
• Brazil — Maritaca AI’s Sabiá-4. Twenty-one threads on the Legal Amazon. 104,428 characters. Published on The Way shelf.