Fermion Research
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Foundation models at
the floor of arithmetic.

AI research and models that push intelligence to the physical limits of computation.

New release

Introducing Phonon-1

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Mission

Intelligence is becoming the most valuable computation on earth, and the most expensive. Fermion Research exists to change the second part. We build foundation models that push intelligence to the physical limits of computation.

Nature runs a general intelligence on twenty watts. We do not believe that is the floor.

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Announcement

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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Announcement

Introducing the Neutrino-1 models

Three open-weight models trained for a compact ternary format and released with CUDA, Apple-silicon, and x86 runtimes.

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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.

Models

Models

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Neutrino-1 8B

Compact general intelligence for reasoning and tool use.

Neutrino-1 0.6B

Fast local drafting in a 238 MB model.

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