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

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

## Publications

## Technical work

Methods, measurements, runtime design, and reproducibility details.

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ResearchJuly 27, 2026

### 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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AnnouncementAugust 28, 2026

### Introducing Phonon-1

An open speech recognition model for English: a 415 MB download that 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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ResearchJuly 27, 2026

### 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.

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