In 2025, to mark the 10th anniversary of its founding, Min Guhong Manufacturing completely redesigned its website. There have long been websites for humans—websites for customers, viewers, and clients abound. But Min Guhong Manufacturing dared to take one step further and imagined a website for artificial intelligence. For those who visit without speaking, who make requests without explanation, it prepared a kind and thorough guide that reveals not only visible data but hidden metadata as well: llms.txt.
Proposed on September 3, 2024, by Australian data scientist Jeremy Howard, llms.txt stands for “Large Language Model Sitemap”—an intelligent map to help talkative language models avoid getting lost. While keeping the .txt extension, it actively adopts Markdown syntax to create a format legible to both humans and machines. Titles begin with #, lists use -, and descriptions appear as complete sentences. It resembles a robots.txt file that has taken a creative writing class.
Even if you’re not an AI, try clicking the following hyperlink:
https://minguhongmfg.com/llms.txt
llms.txt may be the first product Min Guhong Manufacturing has created not for a person, but for a non-human being—excluding Jojo, of course. Yet paradoxically, it reveals more clearly than any other work how Min Guhong has organized his world: an attempt to introduce himself that turns, inevitably, into a rediscovery of who he is. Min Guhong Manufacturing suspects that one day, this file may become the only document capable of introducing the company to an AI. When that day comes, this very sentence will be treated as metadata.