Public atlas · version v0.1.22

Atlas of the Present

Collect the state of technical reality — and keep it true.

The Atlas of the Present is a public, editorially maintained living map of technical reality. It is not a news site, not a future-explainer blog, and not an opinion outlet.

The assignment is: collect the state of technical reality — and keep it true. What appears here should be checkable. What cannot be checked is filed as a claim, or omitted.

Three layers

Established now · E1 / E2

Established now

What stands on named evidence: reproduced, measured, in operational use. Grades E1 and E2.

Claimed · E3

Claimed

What is said but not shown: announcements, demos without transfer, single results without confirmation. Grade E3.

Constrained · Limit

Constrained

Where it fails by design: energy, fabrication, data, physics, institutions. The limit is part of the state.

Dossiers

Twelve fields. Every entry follows the same structure. As of 12 September 2026. Three openings today: dossier 10 Chen et al. HumanEval (E1); dossier 01 Wang et al. Self-Consistency (E1); dossier 08 Black et al. π0 (E1). Still unchecked by Josef. Dossier 12 remains synthesis without new sources.

What this atlas is not

Not a news site and not a ticker.
Not an explainer blog for “the future”.
Not an opinion outlet and not a forecasting stage.

On method: Method. On the assignment: About the atlas.