Mardenic's research is small-scale by design. We build one system — Noema — from scratch, measure it against fixed evaluations, and report material results with their limits. Failed approaches remain part of the record instead of being edited out of the story.
A from-scratch model program with original tokenizers and randomly initialized weights, attributed FineWeb-Edu pretraining text, and founder-led constitutional design. Alma 2 base pretraining is complete; constitutional behavior remains untrained and not evaluated for promotion; the founder-approved specification now gates the curriculum and evaluation work ahead. Read the program page.
A focused, host-mediated retrieval prototype combines a Mardenic-controlled index with scoped web search and fetch. A limited bridge smoke test passed; Alma 2 still cannot autonomously call tools, and retrieved material is treated as evidence rather than authority.