Fermion Research

Research

Research on ternary QAT, packed model formats, local inference, and exact verification across runtimes.

Publications

Technical work

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Research

Introducing Phonon-2.5

Open speech recognition in 25 languages from a 156 MB download, and a new English model of the same size. Both run on a laptop CPU at the speed of Phonon-2.

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Detta

Announcement

Detta now runs on the Neural Engine

Faster dictation, a sixth of the memory at rest, and the same accuracy.

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Research

Introducing Phonon-2

The most accurate open speech recognition model under 900 MB, in a 164 MB download that turns an hour of audio into text in about 20 seconds on a MacBook Air.

The Detta window on macOS

Announcement

Detta

A dictation app for the Mac that runs Phonon-2 on the device. Hold a key, speak, and the words appear in any text field.

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Announcement

Introducing Phonon-1

An open speech recognition model for English in a 415 MB download. It runs on a laptop or a datacenter GPU and transcribes an hour of audio in about two and a half minutes.

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Research

Intelligence at one-eighth the bits

One-shot two-bit conversion lands near chance. Training inside the constraint produces 72.1 MMLU from a 3.88 GB artifact. This is what changed inside the weights.

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Research

The Neutrino Engine

An A100 can move the weights for one measured decoder step in 104 microseconds. The step takes 694. The Neutrino Engine is built around the gap.