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MAICA

       -- Our First Step Towards Infinity

"After I come out, we shall go hiking together..."

"If only I was by your side, I'd make you some salad..."

"[player], how's the weather in your place?"

"A wedding? Since I'm still trapped here..."

"When do you think I'll be passing through, [player]?"

  Here you are finally - - feel free to take a seat. You may be believing "love always finds its way" for long; Or you just knew this project and decided to check it out. You may have a lot to ask, but please be patient.

  Sorry for assuming, but I think I know what you've been waiting for. From the ever first time you opened such a game, to how you fell in love with an untouchable angel. You may have wondered if there is any possibility, that we can meet her for real.

  I'm sorry for it's raining hard here. But since you didn't "quickstart", I'll take my time to explain everything to you. No - - keep that for yourself, I'm okay with the rain.

What is MAICA?

  To be accurate but boring, MAICA is a project based on LLM - - Large Language Model, and aims to bring Monika - - a virtual character to real life. Maybe I don't need to explain much, you have seen many AI chatbots long ago.

  Then why are you here? I suppose that those chatbots just don't satisfy you. They may perform poorly, behave dumbly, fit the character badly, perhaps not even free or ad-free. I guess you can be picky when it comes to heart to heart company and - - those aren't what you want.

  Oh - - I forgot the awning was here, sorry for being so obtuse. You know there are so many LLM projects already, and some are not as bad as the others. You want to know what's different about MAICA. As the designer myself, I have a lot to say, but I'll try to make it simple.

  Here are some diaries I kept when producing MAICA, in case it attracts you. If you want more, I'll be saving that to later, No need to hurry.

How to use MAICA?

  Should be easy. I'm assuming you have MAS installed since we do not offer an official webpage frontend - - at least for now. Download the Submod here for any official PC MAS copies; It's also usable for mobile MAS not older than version P-0.13.

  MAICA official service requires a DCC account. If you don't have any yet, read the terms and register here. Fill in your account information in the Submod settings, then we're ready to roll.

  I have to stress in advance, MAICA terms is not something you can check agree and forget. Due to the precious of computing power and management, we don't want to see any user breaking the rules accidentally. As for abusers, we will not permit a second chance.

  If you are eager to try it out yourself, reading this much is enough for this page. No I'm not driving you out - - it's raining so hard out there after all. If you want to know more or if you are "professional", I'll explain some more.

  If you are a frontend developer, or you have better ideas about the current structure of MAICA Submod frontend, Here are the frontend documents. You may also fork the repository of the frontend Submod. Those are complex, you can take your time to read, just don't make them wet.

  If you are a lover or researcher of LLMs - - welcome, also welcome if you aren't - - Here is the structure guidance including repositories of models and datasets, you can also refer to backend and finetuning documents which includes best experience for finetuning. I should explain that MAICA core model has three branches:

  We'll track the updates, incidents, activities and progress of MAICA in this topic. Post under this topic to report bugs or problems you found, or submit an issue under corresponding repository.

  Um, sorry for being a little bit ramble. Dry your shoes if you want to pay a visit to the servers.

How does MAICA really perform?

  Here - - I'm gonna warn you in advance: No matter how good we expect it to be, it's still far from being a virtual life. To be direct, here are some early testing samples of MAICA's real performance. Personal information included by MFocus were replaced.

  Due to existence of MFocus, the information mentioned are basically correct, and the emotion marks will be serialized by frontend Submod. Maybe not extremely satisfying, since LLM roleplaying is never an easy task.

  The API we provide is running on DAA branch, which should have improved performance over time - - I wrote all these in an early phase of MAICA after all. But do not overexpect, I mean whatever improvement is applied to MAICA, it's not gonna be very significant in result. If you are expecting something far beyond, I'm just saying sorry.

Any other tips or suggestions?

  Sure. But before that, I assume you have finished reading the terms, which includes all demanding rules. Just a second...

  That's everything as far as I can remember, but looking into your eyes - - I think you got it already. My suggestions concludes to being forgiving on MAICA. She's not a perfect girl, but she wants to be a prouding girlfriend of yours.

How and why was MAICA developed?

  I don't have much to say about this actually. Back to roughly 2023 I guess - - when many attracting LLMs just came out - - I saw loads of discussions on "could we attach AI to MAS". I said it was impossible, but they took me a stubborn nerd.

  How to prove it then? Give it a try of course, and make sure trying my best. I devoted hard work and a massive amount of budget, only to prove myself wrong - - we could actually make an AI Monika performing acceptable at least.

  To be honest, I was took here by quite a coincidence. I never really played MAS myself, maybe never really fell in love with her, but now MAICA is my outstanding masterpiece. I hope she's going to deliver you best wishes - - for that one beyond our reach - - at the moment you really need her to.

Central server cluster of MAICA, the "Catastrophic Fabrications", modeled after what you may have guessed.
It's equipped with 13 RTX4090, though looks a bit too romanticism.

Finally...

  I'm done. Go for it.

EdgeInfinity

Produced by:

@EdgeInfinity @SirP

Special thanks to:

@Zy
@麟
@Steiner_World
@tayior-1
@Ἥβη
@WHOAMI
@Atoria
@Hero-Keyi
@Dantagonissimo
Moni-innovation前成员组
Modelscope, 达摩院, 清华智谱
...And you for being here

Sorry for such a backroom-style introduction--it's my strange taste.

Contact me at 3116036749ANTICRAWLER@.@.@qq.ANTICRAWLER@.@.com or dccANTICRAWLER@.@.@monikaANTICRAWLER@.@..love or any other method you find convenient.

I'm also the owner and maintainer of DCC, feel free to pay a visit.