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-# OpenSSM – “Small Specialist Models” for Industrial AI
+# OpenSSA – “Small Specialist Agents” for Industrial AI
 
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-> See full documentation at [aitomatic.github.io/openssm/](https://aitomatic.github.io/openssm/).
+> See full documentation at [aitomatic.github.io/openssa](https://aitomatic.github.io/openssa).
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-OpenSSM (pronounced `open-ess-ess-em`) is an open-source framework for Small Specialist Models (SSMs), which are key to enhancing trust, reliability, and safety in Industrial-AI applications.  Harnessing the power of domain expertise, SSMs operate either alone or in "teams". They collaborate with other SSMs, planners, and sensors/actuators to deliver real-world problem-solving capabilities.
+OpenSSA is an open-source framework for Small Specialist Agents (SSAs), problem-solving AI agents for industrial applications. Harnessing the power of human domain expertise, SSAs operate either alone or in collaborative "teams", and can integrate with both informational and operational sensors/actuators to deliver real-world industrial AI solutions.
 
-Unlike Large Language Models (LLMs), which are computationally intensive and generalized, SSMs are lean, efficient, and designed specifically for individual domains. This focus makes them an optimal choice for businesses, SMEs, researchers, and developers seeking specialized and robust AI solutions for industrial applications.
+SSAs are light-weight, domain-focused and incorporate reasoning and planning capabilities. These characteristics make them ideal for complex hierarchical tasks typically found in industrial applications.
 
-![SSM in Industrial AI](docs/diagrams/ssm-industrial-use-case.drawio.png)
 
-A prime deployment scenario for SSMs is within the aiCALM (Collaborative Augmented Large Models) architecture. aiCALM represents a cohesive assembly of AI components tailored for sophisticated problem-solving capabilities. Within this framework, SSMs work with General Management Models (GMMs) and other components to solve complex, domain-specific, and industrial problems.
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-## Why SSM?
+## Small Size, Specific-Domain Specialization
 
 The trend towards specialization in AI models is a clear trajectory seen by many in the field.
 
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 > _.. small agents working together .. specific and best in their tasks_ – Harrison Chase, Langchain
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+> _.. realize that smaller, cheaper, more specialized models make more sense for 99% of AI use-cases .._ – Clem Delangue, Hugging Face
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 > _.. small but highly capable expert models_ – Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI
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-As predicted by Eric Schmidt and others, we will see “a rich ecosystem to emerge [of] high-value, specialized AI systems.” SSMs are the central part in the architecture of these systems.
+As predicted by Eric Schmidt and others, we will see “a rich ecosystem to emerge [of] high-value, specialized AI systems.” SSAs are the central part in the architecture of these systems.
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-## What OpenSSM Offers
+## System-1 & System-2 Intelligence
 
-OpenSSM fills this gap directly, with the following benefits to the community, developers, and businesses:
+In addition to information-retrieval and inferencing ("System-1 intelligence") capabilities, SSAs are additionally designed with hierachical reasoning and planning ("System-2 intelligence") capabilities. They can execute tasks following general-purpose problem-solving paradigms (such as OODA) and domain-specific expert heuristics, in order to solve a diverse variery of problems that are hard for System-1-only Large Language Models (LLMs) and traditional AI models.
 
-- **Industrial Focus:** SSMs are developed with a specific emphasis on industrial applications, addressing the unique requirements of trustworthiness, safety, reliability, and scalability inherent to this sector.
 
-- **Fast, Cost-Effective & Easy to Use:** SSMs are 100-1000x faster and more efficient than LLMs, making them accessible and cost-effective particularly for industrial usage where time and resources are critical factors.
+## SSA vs LLM
 
-- **Easy Knowledge Capture:** OpenSSM has easy-to-use tools for capturing domain knowledge in diverse forms: books, operaring manuals, databases, knowledge graphs, text files, and code.
+Unlike LLMs, which are computationally intensive and generalized, SSAs are lean, efficient, and designed specifically for individual domains. This focus makes them an optimal choice for businesses, SMEs, researchers, and developers seeking specialized and robust AI solutions for industrial applications.
 
-- **Powerful Operations on Captured Knowledge:** OpenSSM enables both knowledge query and inferencing/predictive capabilities based on the domain-specific knowledge.
+- **Fast, Cost-Effective & Easy to Use:** SSAs are 100-1000x faster and more efficient than LLMs, making them accessible and cost-effective particularly for industrial usage where time and resources are critical factors.
 
-- **Collaborative Problem-Solving**: SSMs are designed to work in problem-solving "teams". Multi-SSM collaboration is a first-class design feature, not an afterthought.
+- **Industrial Focus:** SSAs are developed with a specific emphasis on industrial applications, addressing the unique requirements of trustworthiness, safety, reliability, and scalability inherent to this sector.
 
-- **Reliable Domain Expertise:** Each SSM has expertise in a particular field or equipment, offering precise and specialized knowledge, thereby enhancing trustworthiness, reliability, and safety for Industrial-AI applications. With self-reasoning, causal reasoning, and retrieval-based knowledge, SSMs provide a trustable source of domain expertise.
+- **System-1 AND System-2 Capabilities, not just System-1:** On top of System-1 capabilities such as knowledge query and inferencing/prediction, SSAs have hierarchical problem-solving capabilities based on the domain-specific knowledge and expert heuristics.
 
-- **Vendor Independence:** OpenSSM allows everyone to build, train, and deploy their own domain-expert AI models, offering freedom from vendor lock-in and security concerns.
+- **Vendor Independence:** OpenSSA allows everyone to build, train, and deploy their own domain-expert AI models, offering freedom from vendor lock-in and security concerns.
 
-- **Composable Expertise**: SSMs are fully composable, making it easy to combine domain expertise.
 
 ## Target Audience
 
 Our primary audience includes:
 
 - **Businesses and SMEs** wishing to leverage AI in their specific industrial context without relying on extensive computational resources or large vendor solutions.
 
-- **AI researchers and developers** keen on creating more efficient, robust, and domain-specific AI models for industrial applications.
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-- **Open-source contributors** believing in democratizing industrial AI and eager to contribute to a community-driven project focused on building and sharing specialized AI models.
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-- **Industries** with specific domain problems that can be tackled more effectively by a specialist AI model, enhancing the reliability and trustworthiness of AI solutions in an industrial setting.
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-## SSM Architecture
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-At a high level, SSMs comprise a front-end Small Language Model (SLM), an adapter layer in the middle, and a wide range of back-end domain-knowledge sources. The SLM itself is a small, efficient, language model, which may be domain-specific or not, and may have been distilled from a larger model. Thus, domain knowledge may come from either, or both, the SLM and the backends.
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-![High-Level SSM Architecture](docs/diagrams/ssm-key-components.drawio.png)
+- **AI researchers and developers** keen on creating more efficient, robust, and domain-specific AI agents for industrial applications.
 
-The above diagram illustrates the high-level architecture of an SSM, which comprises three main components:
+- **Open-source contributors** believing in democratizing industrial AI and eager to contribute to a community-driven project focused on building and sharing specialized AI agents.
 
-1. Small Language Model (SLM): This forms the communication frontend of an SSM.
+- **Industries** with specific domain problems that can be tackled more effectively by a specialist AI agent, enhancing the reliability and trustworthiness of AI solutions in an industrial setting.
 
-2. Adapters (e.g., LlamaIndex): These provide the interface between the SLM and the domain-knowledge backends.
 
-3. Domain-Knowledge Backends: These include text files, documents, PDFs, databases, code, knowledge graphs, models, other SSMs, etc.
+## SSA Architecture
 
-SSMs communicate in both unstructured (natural language) and structured APIs, catering to a variety of real-world industrial systems.
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-![SSM Composability](docs/diagrams/ssm-composability.drawio.png)
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-The composable nature of SSMs allows for easy combination of domain-knowledge sources from multiple models.
 
 ## Getting Started
 
 See our [Getting Started Guide](docs/GETTING_STARTED.md) for more information.
 
-## Roadmap
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-- Play with SSMs in a hosted SSM sandbox, uploading your own domain knowledge
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-- Create SSMs in your own development environment, and integrate SSMs into your own AI apps
 
-- Capture domain knowledge in various forms into your SSMs
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-- Train SLMs via distillation of LLMs, teacher/student approaches, etc.
+## Roadmap
 
-- Apply SSMs in collaborative problem-solving AI systems
 
 ## Community
 
-Join our vibrant community of AI enthusiasts, researchers, developers, and businesses who are democratizing industrial AI through SSMs.  Participate in the discussions, share your ideas, or ask for help on our [Community Discussions](https://github.com/aitomatic/openssm/discussions).
+Join our vibrant community of AI enthusiasts, researchers, developers, and businesses who are democratizing industrial AI through SSAs.  Participate in the discussions, share your ideas, or ask for help on our [Community Discussions](https://github.com/aitomatic/openssa/discussions).
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 ## Contribute
 
-OpenSSM is a community-driven initiative, and we warmly welcome contributions. Whether it's enhancing existing models, creating new SSMs for different industrial domains, or improving our documentation, every contribution counts. See our [Contribution Guide](docs/community/CONTRIBUTING.md) for more details.
+OpenSSA is a community-driven initiative, and we warmly welcome contributions. Whether it's enhancing existing models, creating new SSAs for different industrial domains, or improving our documentation, every contribution counts. See our [Contribution Guide](docs/community/CONTRIBUTING.md) for more details.
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 ## License
 
-OpenSSM is released under the [Apache 2.0 License](docs/LICENSE.md).
+OpenSSA is released under the [Apache 2.0 License](docs/LICENSE.md).