Frequently asked questions
What is Thetatron?
Thetatron builds human AI for people who distrust the frozen stranger they share no history with. Thetatron is not an LLM. It's a patent-pending digital brain that learns and experiences the world with you, and grows with the people it serves, without retraining.
What is continual learning?
Continual learning is AI that keeps learning after it's deployed. Most AI is trained once in a data center and then frozen: to learn anything new it needs another training run. A continual-learning system learns in place, from what it encounters, without losing what it already knows.
Is Thetatron a large language model (LLM)?
No. Thetatron is a brain-based architecture, modeled on the organs of the mammalian brain and conceived in 1997. It runs underneath existing, unchanged language models, so each new model lifts it instead of replacing it.
How is it different from retrieval (RAG), fine-tuning or retraining?
Retrieval stores documents but never learns, and when a fact changes it can't tell which version is current. Fine-tuning and retraining go back to a data center, cost a training run and can erase what the model knew. Thetatron learns in place: it knows who told it what, a corrected fact replaces the old one, and when it doesn't know, it says so instead of guessing.
Does it work offline or on my own hardware?
Yes. Thetatron is designed to run on a customer's own hardware, including offline and on disconnected networks, and our prototype runs fully offline on an iPad. It can also run in the cloud.
Who is Thetatron for?
For people who rely on AI over time, and for the organizations that put AI in front of them: teams building AI products, and field teams in defense, homeland security, public safety and health who need AI that works where they work.
Who decides what it learns?
You do. You decide who teaches it. What it learns after it's deployed comes from the people you choose, not from strangers or a distant lab.
Is Thetatron patented?
Thetatron is patent pending. A U.S. provisional patent application was filed on October 30, 2026.
Where is Thetatron based?
Herndon, Virginia. Thetatron, Inc. was founded by Jared Spigner. Contact: [email protected].