Insights · 2026

Field notes from the lab.

Research updates, shipping logs, and the occasional take. Slow on cadence, high on signal.

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  1. A Tinker research grant.

    Thinking Machines has awarded Kōzu AI a Tinker research grant. What it accelerates, and where it points.

    NewsResearch

  2. How we distill.

    The apparatus behind the models: Hadron for tournament-refined distillation, Tokamak for trace compression, Stellarator for orchestration — and why we distill instead of scale.

    MethodologyTooling

  3. The model line.

    Deimos, Europa, Ganymede — a scaling-class system — and Kuiper, the specialist that reads their reasoning. One thesis underneath: reasoning that does more per token.

    ModelsReasoning