Make the world a better place
through Middle-Out compression.

Real, server-side compression head to head: Anton on the GPU (ultra-fast) vs Hooli’s 7z (strong, slow), scored with a genuine Weissman score. Nothing runs in your browser — the engines run on the box.

Run the Weissman Test  ▸What’s a Weissman score?

Compressed on the box — no Hooli, no Box, no cloud. (Okay, one Hooli, on purpose.)

The score that started it all

The Weissman Test

One file, two real engines, scored on ratio × speed. Both run on the server, so the numbers don’t depend on your laptop.

Anton — checking the rack…▱▱▱▱
Data typeHow the bytes are read (float path uses the GPU key-map).
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Module · Anton

Compress on Anton

Send a file to the GPU engine. It compresses on the Radeon and hands you a lossless .pips — CRC32‑checked, never worse than raw.

Data typefloat64 / float32 = scientific path · bytes = anything.
Drop a file, or click to browseIt’s sent to Anton (GPU) on the box and compressed there.
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Module · Piper

Decompress with Piper

Drop a .pips Anton produced — it’s decoded on the box, CRC32‑verified, and handed back bit‑for‑bit identical to the original.

Drop a .pips here, or click to browseAnton’s container — restored exactly, or rejected if corrupt.
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No magic. Just the formula.

How the Weissman score works

The real metric devised for the show by Prof. Tsachy Weissman & Vinith Misra. It rewards ratio AND speed — which is why a fast codec can beat a stronger but slower one.

W = α · ( r / rref ) · ( log Tref / log T )
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r / rref — ratio

How much Anton shrinks the file vs the reference (Hooli’s 7z). Hooli usually wins here — it compresses harder.

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log Tref / log T — speed

How fast Anton is vs Hooli, measured on the server. Anton is far faster, so this term is > 1 and lifts the score.

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W — the verdict

Above 1 = Anton wins (speed beat brute force). α = 1 here, no inflation. It’s the whole point of the show.

$ run the Weissman Test above — the live numbers land here:
$ original · Anton(size, time) · Hooli(size, time) → W

The new internet

PiperNet — coming in a later season

A decentralized internet built on the spare compute and storage of every device, powered by universal compression. For now, enjoy a compressor that runs on your box — and a GPU named Anton doing the heavy lifting.

ALWAYS BLUE!