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Introducing DEW — our first open foundation model
DEW is a free, open-source Socratic tutor for education, built to help students think rather than copy. Today we are releasing the weights, the code, and the whitepaper.
An Indian lab bets on small, sovereign AI for schools
Coverage of the DEW launch and Rainwater Labs' thesis that frontier capability need not be expensive, centralized, or extractive.
DEW now runs fully offline on classroom hardware
A new lightweight build of DEW runs on standard lab desktops and Chromebook servers with no internet connection — keeping every token inside the school network.
Logits-level safety guardrails ship to all models
Our runtime guardrail, which makes unsafe topics physically inexpressible, is now enabled by default across every Rainwater model.
Rainwater Labs wants to make frontier AI cheap and local
A look at the company's seed round and its focus on energy efficiency, affordability, and digital sovereignty.
Rainwater Labs closes its seed round
We have raised our seed round to build energy-efficient, affordable, and sovereign foundation models — and to keep DEW free, forever.
Teacher dashboard: per-student mastery view
Educators can now see who has mastered what at a glance, and spot the students who are stuck before the test does.
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