Measure before promise.

Fornace carries research into the runtime: models, corpora, evaluation, Metal 4.1, quantization and agent systems. Rejected routes stay in the record.

Imagineer

A 17,968,232,817-byte native pack for local generation on Apple Silicon. Production stays INT8; INT2 kernels are a research milestone, not a production model.

Eugeny

A model, training, corpus and evaluation programme built on attributed upstream architectures. One-image input is verified; broad multi-image reasoning is not.

Rejected routes

• OrbitQuant: −40,4% pack, 8,5 s/passo. Bocciato sul tempo.
• Qwen3.8 Q2: parity corta, loop oltre ~1.700 token. Bocciato sulla qualità.
• HiLS 1M: un token su otto, exact match zero. Bocciato sul recupero.