HawkTalk Lighthouse
On-device AI that gets out of your way — so you can be out in the country, not buried in a screen. No signal, no menus, no cloud. You just say what's up, the way you'd tell a friend walking beside you, and it's handled.
The best trail tech is the kind you forget you're carrying. Hawk Alpha stays quiet in your pocket until you speak — then it marks the spot, finds the water, checks the distance, and gets out of the way again. You came out here to look up, not down.
Entry tier
Gemma 3 · 1B
The always-available baseline. Understands and carries out a single spoken command offline, on nearly any phone — the tier that makes sure the voice layer works even on the humblest hardware in the pack.
Min features
Flagship tier
Gemma 4 · E2B
The deepest on-device understanding. Takes longer, messier, multi-part phrasing, holds the thread, and drives the richest set of trail actions with the best judgment — tuned to be stunningly quick on flagship silicon.
Min features
Action specialist
Qwen2.5 · 1.5B
The command engine. Turns speech into exact, valid instructions — grammar-locked, so it can only ever produce a real command, never a made-up one. The tier that makes the voice actions actually fire.
Min features
| Tier | Base | Device | Does | Footprint | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sapling | Gemma 3 · 1B | budget / older | single voice commands | ~1B, trimmed | TBA |
| Oak | Gemma 4 · E2B | flagship / NPU | rich, multi-part commands | ~2B effective | TBA |
| Sakura | Qwen2.5 · 1.5B | mid-range + | voice → exact actions | 941 MB · Q4 | TBA |
The Showing
Hawk Alpha is the HawkTalk Lighthouse layer for OpenCairn — in active trials, not a store shelf. Licensing across all three tiers is to be announced. What you're seeing is the family coming together around one idea: real voice actions, in real country, with the phone in airplane mode.
Special thanks to Dennis Smith — who held down OpenCairn's side of the Lighthouse and made this partnership real.