Mapping
Digital twin of Réunion Island
MapLibre · OpenStreetMap · LiDAR · SAM2
Rebuilding an entire island in 3D — terrain, buildings, neighbourhoods — and wiring an engine onto it that answers questions you ask of a territory.
An open lab notebook
From local to frontier. I test everything.
Dozens of experiments run here in parallel. When one holds up I publish the whole of it — the write-up, the data it came from, and the app to check it yourself — including the parts that said I was wrong.
- MIT 2023
- Solo operator
- Local → Frontier
- Claude · GPT · Qwen
6,215companies in the open dataset
384dimensions per vector, on my own CPU
0third-party scripts on this site
What the numbers said.
The value is not in any one model. It is in how you make them work together.
A lab, not a chapel.
I'm Riaz. I work across the whole range of what AI can do right now, and I rule nothing out on principle.
Trained at the MIT in 2023 in digital transformation, I run open-weight models on hardware under my own desk and frontier models like Claude and GPT through their APIs — not out of doctrine, but because different jobs want different tools.
This site is the notebook. Anything I can show without breaking a client confidence ends up here: the app, the data, the method, and the part that didn't work. If a number appears on this site, there is a command somewhere that produced it.
- Trained
- MIT · 2023
- Mode
- Solo operator
- Range
- Local → Frontier
- Method
- Measure first
What is running right now.
Eight experiments in parallel — from mapping an island to a face driving an avatar. Not all of them will ship, and that is the point.
Real time
Face-driven 3D avatar
MediaPipe · ARKit blendshapes · WebGL
A webcam face animating a 3D character, rendered from four angles at once, with no perceptible lag.
Video
The film factory
n8n · ElevenLabs · image-to-video models
A JSON brief goes in one end; forty seconds later an edited film comes out the other. Voice-over, shots and cut included.
Infrastructure
Compute at home
NVIDIA DGX Spark · Ollama · vLLM
Two machines under the desk running open-weight models with no usage ceiling and no data leaving the building.
Agents
Multi-agent orchestration
Claude Code · MCP · a shared registry
Dozens of agents sharing one registry, real browsers and real servers — coordinating without me in the loop.
Embeddings
The YC Atlas
fastembed · 384d · t-SNE · KMeans
Every public Y Combinator company vectorised on a CPU at home, to ask what an accelerator's portfolio actually looks like from the inside. Open it →
Game
Tubyrinth
Unity 6 · mobile
A 3D pipe maze you have to memorise. Native prototype first, to see what a game designed with agents actually plays like.
Audio
Synthetic music and voice
Suno · ElevenLabs · XTTS
Jingles, scores and cloned voices — the audio half of everything that leaves the lab, and usually the half people underestimate.
Contact
Let's build something.
Exploring AI, sitting on a problem worth orchestrating, or looking for someone who actually ships? Write to me.
One address hello@riazlab.com