08 // Acknowledgements
Building the future of AI and GameDev is never a truly solo endeavor. Huge respect and gratitude to the giants whose shoulders we stand on, and the friends who helped along the way.
For creating the most powerful, flexible, and visually stunning real-time 3D creation tool in the world. Unreal Engine 5 is the ultimate canvas, making the impossible achievable for independent developers everywhere.
An all-around computer expert, python wizard, and AI enthusiast. From guiding me back in 1997 when I had absolutely no clue what I was doing, to providing brilliant code and deep knowledge today. The absolute best person to discuss complex ideas with—especially when we don't agree. Thank you for decades of mentorship and friendship.
To the language models and AI coding assistants that help turn pure vision into functional code at lightspeed. You are the ultimate digital pair programmers, helping a solo developer work with the force of an entire team.
For pioneering open-weight AI. Llama is the cognitive engine that powers Spectra's core intelligence, proving that world-class language models belong in the hands of the community, running locally.
The gold standard for Speech-to-Text. Whisper gives Spectra the ability to hear and perfectly transcribe human speech with near-zero latency, offline.
The silent powerhouse behind the scenes. ONNX provides the blazing fast, cross-platform machine learning inference that makes real-time neural TTS and vision processing possible directly on the GPU.
For revolutionizing decentralized music streaming and providing the incredible API that allows us to integrate millions of tracks directly into our custom music hub seamlessly.