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VKORE: LoRA Training on Inference-Only NPUs with 3.8 Inference Speedup and 0.9999 PyTorch Parity

VKORE: LoRA Training on Inference-Only NPUs with 3.8 Inference Speedup and 0.9999 PyTorch Parity

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VIDRAFT Trains a Language Model from Scratch on NPUs — No GPUs Required

VIDRAFT Trains a Language Model from Scratch on NPUs — No GPUs Required

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Training an LLM from Scratch on Inference-Only NPUs — No GPU Required

Training an LLM from Scratch on Inference-Only NPUs — No GPU Required

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Pretraining From Scratch on an Inference-Only NPU: VKORE-46M-NPU

Pretraining From Scratch on an Inference-Only NPU: VKORE-46M-NPU

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Open Quantum Challenge: GPU-Accelerated Quantum Simulation Meets Open Benchmarking (FINAL-Bench & VIDRAFT)

Open Quantum Challenge: GPU-Accelerated Quantum Simulation Meets Open Benchmarking (FINAL-Bench & VIDRAFT)

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Trained Only in English, #1 in Japanese Too: Darwin ZTC on S1MB

Trained Only in English, #1 in Japanese Too: Darwin ZTC on S1MB

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VKORE: VIDRAFT's Software Stack That Brings AI Training to Inference-Only NPUs

VKORE: VIDRAFT's Software Stack That Brings AI Training to Inference-Only NPUs

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VIDRAFT's VKORE: An NPU Acceleration Software Layer That Unlocks Both Inference *and* Training on Non-GPU Hardware

VIDRAFT's VKORE: An NPU Acceleration Software Layer That Unlocks Both Inference *and* Training on Non-GPU Hardware

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Training Transformers on 'Inference-Only' NPUs: How VKORE Reached 0.9999 Parity

Training Transformers on 'Inference-Only' NPUs: How VKORE Reached 0.9999 Parity

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Model-Level RSI: What It Means When a Model Improves Its Own Weights

Model-Level RSI: What It Means When a Model Improves Its Own Weights

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Darwin-27B-ZTC-v2: VIDRAFT's Open-Weights Answer to the Typed Decision Model Problem in Agent Graphs

Darwin-27B-ZTC-v2: VIDRAFT's Open-Weights Answer to the Typed Decision Model Problem in Agent Graphs

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A $7.5B Startup Says Agents Shouldn't Ask an LLM to Decide. A Blog Just Named Our Open Model as the Alternative.

A $7.5B Startup Says Agents Shouldn't Ask an LLM to Decide. A Blog Just Named Our Open Model as the Alternative.

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Open Quantum Challenge (Season 1 & 2): Benchmark Quantum Algorithms on GPU Without a Quantum Computer

Open Quantum Challenge (Season 1 & 2): Benchmark Quantum Algorithms on GPU Without a Quantum Computer

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S1MB Number One: A Zero-Token Judge That Won the Decision-Engine Leaderboard

S1MB Number One: A Zero-Token Judge That Won the Decision-Engine Leaderboard

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a16z Bet $870M on Typed, Machine-Native AI. Here Is the Open, Benchmark-Proven Version

a16z Bet $870M on Typed, Machine-Native AI. Here Is the Open, Benchmark-Proven Version

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VIDRAFT Darwin ZTC v2 Takes #1 on S1MB Leaderboard, Beating 102 Models Including Official Open JEV

VIDRAFT Darwin ZTC v2 Takes #1 on S1MB Leaderboard, Beating 102 Models Including Official Open JEV

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ONGRID: GraphRAG에 '검증'을 더하다 (제로토큰 판정)

ONGRID: GraphRAG에 '검증'을 더하다 (제로토큰 판정)

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ONGRID: adding zero-token verification to GraphRAG

ONGRID: adding zero-token verification to GraphRAG

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Darwin-27B-ZTC-v2 is #1 on the S1MB decision-engine leaderboard

Darwin-27B-ZTC-v2 is #1 on the S1MB decision-engine leaderboard

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OSC-Superconductor: A Public AI Training Dataset for Superconductor Research, Now Listed on SAVRN

OSC-Superconductor: A Public AI Training Dataset for Superconductor Research, Now Listed on SAVRN

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VIDRAFT at Smart Life Week 2026: What Engineers Need to Know About the Korean Pre-AGI Startup's Global Expansion

VIDRAFT at Smart Life Week 2026: What Engineers Need to Know About the Korean Pre-AGI Startup's Global Expansion

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When More Robot Data Hurts: a Closed-Loop Test of Data Curation

When More Robot Data Hurts: a Closed-Loop Test of Data Curation

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VIDRAFT QuantumOS Listed in Entangled Future's 2026 Global Quantum Computing Directory

VIDRAFT QuantumOS Listed in Entangled Future's 2026 Global Quantum Computing Directory

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Running a 180B Model on a Gaming Laptop: POCKET-Darwin-180B

Running a 180B Model on a Gaming Laptop: POCKET-Darwin-180B

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VIDRAFT Selected as Enterprise User of Quantinuum's Quantum Computing Platform

VIDRAFT Selected as Enterprise User of Quantinuum's Quantum Computing Platform

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AX-RAY: VIDRAFT's Agent Safety Benchmark Flags 92% of Tested LLMs as Dangerous in Agentic Contexts

AX-RAY: VIDRAFT's Agent Safety Benchmark Flags 92% of Tested LLMs as Dangerous in Agentic Contexts

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Running a 180B-Parameter MoE Model on a Gaming Laptop: VIDRAFT's POCKET-Darwin-180B-GGUF

Running a 180B-Parameter MoE Model on a Gaming Laptop: VIDRAFT's POCKET-Darwin-180B-GGUF

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How Model-Level RSI Works: Darwin-180B-RSI Learns From Problems It Can Check, Not From Human Answers

How Model-Level RSI Works: Darwin-180B-RSI Learns From Problems It Can Check, Not From Human Answers

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VIDRAFT Selected to Use Quantinuum's Nexus and H-Series: What It Means When an AI Lab Gets Real Quantum Hardware

VIDRAFT Selected to Use Quantinuum's Nexus and H-Series: What It Means When an AI Lab Gets Real Quantum Hardware

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VIDRAFT Tops 10 Hugging Face Official Leaderboards — A Real-Time Map of All 48 Benchmarks Is Now Public

VIDRAFT Tops 10 Hugging Face Official Leaderboards — A Real-Time Map of All 48 Benchmarks Is Now Public

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Open 180B Model Leads 10 Official Hugging Face Leaderboards, and the Zero-Token Judge Behind It

Open 180B Model Leads 10 Official Hugging Face Leaderboards, and the Zero-Token Judge Behind It

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Darwin-180B-RSI Tops Swiss Legal Reasoning Benchmarks Without Domain-Specific Training

Darwin-180B-RSI Tops Swiss Legal Reasoning Benchmarks Without Domain-Specific Training

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ModelScope's Mirror Strategy: What Korean AI Benchmark FINAL-Bench's Experience Tells Developers About Cross-Platform Model Distribution

ModelScope's Mirror Strategy: What Korean AI Benchmark FINAL-Bench's Experience Tells Developers About Cross-Platform Model Distribution

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Hugging Face official benchmarks: the complete list (48) and how their leaderboards work

Hugging Face official benchmarks: the complete list (48) and how their leaderboards work

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Running a 180B-Parameter LLM on a Laptop Without a GPU: VIDRAFT's POCKET-Darwin-180B

Running a 180B-Parameter LLM on a Laptop Without a GPU: VIDRAFT's POCKET-Darwin-180B

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VIDRAFT's AX-RAY AI Safety Diagnostic Platform Earns Alibaba ModelScope "Research Institution" Certification — Here's What Engineers Need to Know

VIDRAFT's AX-RAY AI Safety Diagnostic Platform Earns Alibaba ModelScope "Research Institution" Certification — Here's What Engineers Need to Know

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Darwin-180B-RSI: How VIDRAFT's Recursive Self-Improvement Model Topped 7 Hugging Face Leaderboards — Without Legal Training Data

Darwin-180B-RSI: How VIDRAFT's Recursive Self-Improvement Model Topped 7 Hugging Face Leaderboards — Without Legal Training Data

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Darwin-180B-RSI Tops Global Legal Reasoning Benchmarks — Without Ever Training on Legal Data

Darwin-180B-RSI Tops Global Legal Reasoning Benchmarks — Without Ever Training on Legal Data

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VIDRAFT Darwin-180B-RSI Tops 5 Hugging Face Leaderboards: AIME & HMMT Perfect Scores, 94.44% on GPQA Diamond

VIDRAFT Darwin-180B-RSI Tops 5 Hugging Face Leaderboards: AIME & HMMT Perfect Scores, 94.44% on GPQA Diamond

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Darwin-180B-RSI: VIDRAFT's Recursive Self-Improvement MoE Model Claims Five Leaderboard Tops

Darwin-180B-RSI: VIDRAFT's Recursive Self-Improvement MoE Model Claims Five Leaderboard Tops

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VIDRAFT Beats Global Big Tech on Five AI Benchmarks Simultaneously

VIDRAFT Beats Global Big Tech on Five AI Benchmarks Simultaneously

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Korean startup's open 180B model tops five Hugging Face official leaderboards, including perfect AIME 2026 and HMMT 2026 scores

Korean startup's open 180B model tops five Hugging Face official leaderboards, including perfect AIME 2026 and HMMT 2026 scores

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Reading an official Hugging Face leaderboard: protocols, majority vote and reproducibility

Reading an official Hugging Face leaderboard: protocols, majority vote and reproducibility

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Darwin: evolving a 180B parent model by changing 0.02% of it

Darwin: evolving a 180B parent model by changing 0.02% of it

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Perfect scores on AIME 2026 and HMMT 2026: what an open 180B model got right, and why thinking budget mattered

Perfect scores on AIME 2026 and HMMT 2026: what an open 180B model got right, and why thinking budget mattered

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South Korea's Government–Naver Consortium Is Building Dual 700B-Class Cybersecurity-Specialized AI Models with 4,512 GPUs

South Korea's Government–Naver Consortium Is Building Dual 700B-Class Cybersecurity-Specialized AI Models with 4,512 GPUs

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JEV vs ZTC: Statistically Tied on Accuracy, 1.4 Points Apart Where It Counts

JEV vs ZTC: Statistically Tied on Accuracy, 1.4 Points Apart Where It Counts

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Which LLM Answer Verifier Is Most Accurate? 13 Systems, One Test Set, Published Labels.

Which LLM Answer Verifier Is Most Accurate? 13 Systems, One Test Set, Published Labels.

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How Do You Compare LLM Answer Verifiers? Run ZTC, JEV and Laya on the Same Answer.

How Do You Compare LLM Answer Verifiers? Run ZTC, JEV and Laya on the Same Answer.

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We Tested 13 Answer Verifiers. A Baseline That Only Counts Characters Beat 8 of Them.

We Tested 13 Answer Verifiers. A Baseline That Only Counts Characters Beat 8 of Them.

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They Put 7 Attention Mechanisms on a Latin Square. Then Removed Them One by One.

They Put 7 Attention Mechanisms on a Latin Square. Then Removed Them One by One.

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Korean-Language AI Quality Leaderboard: 426 OpenRouter Models Benchmarked Across 7 Korean-Specific Dimensions

Korean-Language AI Quality Leaderboard: 426 OpenRouter Models Benchmarked Across 7 Korean-Specific Dimensions

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VIDRAFT POCKET-35B: A 35B-Parameter On-Device LLM That Hits 1M Hugging Face Downloads in 7 Weeks — No GPU Required

VIDRAFT POCKET-35B: A 35B-Parameter On-Device LLM That Hits 1M Hugging Face Downloads in 7 Weeks — No GPU Required

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We ranked the top 300 open LLMs by real downloads. 66% of them are Chinese.

We ranked the top 300 open LLMs by real downloads. 66% of them are Chinese.

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VIDRAFT's Darwin Factory: Model-Merging AI Foundry That Ships Custom LLMs in One Day

VIDRAFT's Darwin Factory: Model-Merging AI Foundry That Ships Custom LLMs in One Day

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126 neurons out of 173,023 carry the fly's danger signal — and we built a browser demo that lets you cut them

126 neurons out of 173,023 carry the fly's danger signal — and we built a browser demo that lets you cut them

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AX-RAY & K-MYTHOS: Inside Korea's Consortium-Built Security-Specialized AI Foundation Model

AX-RAY & K-MYTHOS: Inside Korea's Consortium-Built Security-Specialized AI Foundation Model

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VIDRAFT's PharmaOS Closes the Loop: AI Drug Discovery Gets Cell-Level Experimental Validation

VIDRAFT's PharmaOS Closes the Loop: AI Drug Discovery Gets Cell-Level Experimental Validation

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VIDRAFT's AX-RAY: Diagnosing Causal Leakage in AI Models — Now Powering a 700B-Parameter Cybersecurity Foundation Model

VIDRAFT's AX-RAY: Diagnosing Causal Leakage in AI Models — Now Powering a 700B-Parameter Cybersecurity Foundation Model

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VIDRAFT & Naver Cloud Join Korea's Ministry of Science ICT-Backed Security-Specialized AI Initiative, Bringing AX-RAY Technology to the Stack

VIDRAFT & Naver Cloud Join Korea's Ministry of Science ICT-Backed Security-Specialized AI Initiative, Bringing AX-RAY Technology to the Stack

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