Prove
Set a falsifiable boundary before declaring growth. Kill-tests and controls belong in the record.
Independent American AI lab · Est. 2026
Growing a mind that does not forget.
An independent American AI research lab, studying how a model gains new skills without losing what it already knows.
layer 05 · growing
layer 04 · verified
layer 03 · frozen
layer 02 · frozen
layer 01 · frozen
6 public papers
Mechanisms, artifacts, and explicit scope labels.
Wins and failures
A killed mechanism stays in the record. That is the credibility.
JUWEL OS ships today
A practical AI product, built by the lab.
Research index
The claim is only useful if someone else can check it.
The archive holds both the mechanism and the limits. Continual learning (CIP) stays toy-scoped unless a paper says otherwise, and the scope sits beside every title.
VL-2026-01
Beyond the Scaling CeilingFlagship thesis · Jul 2026
PROVEN-toy
PDF
VL-2026-02
The Accretion ModelModel type · Jun 2026
BUILT-CPU
PDF
VL-2026-03
The Leakage SignatureArtifact · Jun 2026
Bounded
PDF
VL-2026-04
Verifier-Centric Capability GrowthMechanism · Jun 2026
Measured + proposed
PDF
VL-2026-05
Sound Compounding RatchetMechanism · Jun 2026
PROVEN-toy
PDF
VL-2026-06
Capability Injection via Reverse AbliterationPreprint · Jun 2026
Not product
PDF
Four rules keep the research honest.
Scope
Toy stays toy. CPU-built stays CPU-built. Proposed work never presents itself as a measured result.
Freeze
Growth is additive. Existing work stays byte-frozen or is kept behind a regression gate.
Publish
Failures are part of the boundary. Source, tools, and the offline verifier make a claim testable. We publish either way.
Research receipt
Verified offline
PaperBeyond the Scaling Ceiling
ScopePROVEN-toy
CheckerSeparate from the model
Signed2026-07-04 14:02:11
sig:ecdsa-p256 3045·0221·00b7f2…a71f
How rule four stays honest: signed receipts ship in JUWEL today. Check one yourself, offline, with our servers unplugged.
A record of what held, what broke, and what comes next.
Receipts, not logs: neutrality as a property
Why an audit only counts when the checker is separate from the system being checked.
Forgetting curves on toy curricula
What held in small continual-learning tests, and what is still open.
Substrate-agnostic by design
A signed record makes the work traceable without pretending one model fits every job.
JUWEL OS is the product we ship.
The research program is public. JUWEL OS gives people an AI with its own computer for real work today, and signs what it does onto a record you can check.
Small by design. Clear about the limits.
We began in security, where an uncheckable claim is not enough. Today we build tools, publish research, and read every serious note.