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Coverage of our foundation models and architecture research.
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Reports on AETHER - pre-trained from initialisation - the Darwin family built by evolutionary model merging, and our own attention architecture.
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Models & architecture coverage
- 2026-08-26Digital TimesVIDRAFT confirms causal leakage in released AI models and moves into the security-AI programme
- 2026-08-26ChosunBizVIDRAFT publishes its causal-leakage diagnostic research and moves it into the national security-AI programme
- 2026-08-14ZDNet KoreaVIDRAFT releases AX-RAY AI safety diagnostics and evaluation dataset on Hugging Face
- 2026-08-14The Korea Economic DailyVIDRAFT AX-Ray delivers the first empirical demonstration of defects in public AI models
- 2026-08-14Electronic TimesVIDRAFT AX-Ray diagnoses and reproduces causal-leakage defects in two general-purpose public AI models
- 2026-07-20CNMO 手机中国 (China)Chinese IT outlet CNMO (手机中国) highlights full disclosure of 'Aether-7B-5Attn' — "An independent foundation model, not English-centric"
- 2026-07-20Tencent News (China)China's largest portal Tencent News (腾讯新闻) reports on VIDRAFT's open-source foundation model 'Aether-7B-5Attn'
- 2026-07-20金融界 (China)Published on Chinese financial portal 金融界 — VIDRAFT open-sources 'Aether-7B', fully releasing training source code and weights
- 2026-07-20ReasonCore (Global)English-language IT outlet ReasonCore highlights full disclosure of 'Aether-7B-5Attn' — weights, training code, data recipe, logs, and checkpoints all reproducible under Apache-2.0
- 2026-07-20JoongAng IlboVIDRAFT releases fully open foundation model... "Realizing AI sovereignty"
- 2026-07-20ZDNet KoreaAI startup VIDRAFT unveils independently developed foundation model 'Aether-7B-5Attn'
- 2026-07-20Digital DailyVIDRAFT releases 'AI meal-kit' open-source LLM... "Presents a model structure anyone can reproduce"
- 2026-07-20Hankook IlboVIDRAFT releases Korean-style open-source AI model, disclosing even the training process
- 2026-07-20ChosunBizVIDRAFT releases foundation model 'Aether-7B-5Attn'... also provides training code and data
- 2026-07-20AI Times"A Korean-style OLMo-level fully open model emerges"... VIDRAFT discloses even training recipe and logs
- 2026-07-20Electronic TimesVIDRAFT releases open-source LLM 'Aether' based on integrated experiments combining 5-11 types of heterogeneous attention
- 2026-07-20Dong-A IlboAI startup VIDRAFT releases open-source model 'Aether-7B-5Attn' on Hugging Face
- 2026-07-13ChosunBizVIDRAFT's AI model 'Darwin' surpasses 1 million cumulative downloads on Hugging Face
- 2026-07-13DBR"High efficiency with few resources"... AI 'Darwin' made by a startup succeeds abroad
- 2026-07-13JoongAng Ilbo"Darwin's cumulative Hugging Face downloads surpass 1 million" — 3 months after first release in April, 1.03 million+
- 2026-07-10ZDNet KoreaVIDRAFT releases architectural design AI 'Building' for free
- 2026-07-06Electronic Times'QuantumOS simulator released on Hugging Face'. Photo=VIDRAFT
- 2026-07-05MSNGenieGenAI×VIDRAFT jointly develop 'metacognition' adapter essential for AGI, unveiled
- 2026-07-01v.daum.netGenieGenAI×VIDRAFT jointly develop 'metacognition' adapter essential for AGI, unveiled
- 2026-05-22Hankyung MagazineAmid LLM efficiency race, VIDRAFT unveils AI framework technology
- 2026-05-21TechWalker (China)China's TechWalker (科技行者) spotlights VIDRAFT's 'Darwin' — intelligence leap through 'gene recombination' without additional training
- 2026-05-21Tencent News (China)China's largest portal Tencent News (腾讯新闻) spotlights VIDRAFT's 'Darwin Family' — "AI capability leap through gene recombination without training"
- 2026-05-19Seoul ShinmunVIDRAFT unveils 'Darwin Family' LLM framework technology without GPU retraining
- 2026-04-21Electronic TimesVIDRAFT unveils browser-based local AI 'Hansu'... presents data sovereignty-type service
- 2026-04-21Asia TodayVIDRAFT unveils browser-based local AI 'Hansu'... document processing in offline environment
- 2026-04-21v.daum.netVIDRAFT unveils browser-based local AI 'Hansu'... supports document processing in offline environment
- 2026-04-20v.daum.netVIDRAFT unveils fully local AI 'Hansu (韓守)' that runs in browser
- 2026-04-20Economist KoreaVIDRAFT unveils browser-based local AI 'Hansu'... presents data sovereignty-type work AI
- 2026-04-06Electronic TimesVIDRAFT unveils embodied AI world model 'PROMETHEUS'
- 2026-04-05BrunchCrossbreeding and evolving two different LLMs to produce offspring
- 2026-04-02IT ChosunVIDRAFT unveils embodied AI world model 'Prometheus'
- 2026-04-01BrunchAI models can 'interbreed' too? Offspring smarter than their parents!
- 2026-03-16Electronic TimesGenieGenAI unveils dedicated evaluation system for small AI models…simultaneously enters top 10 on Hugging Face Spaces and Datasets
- 2026-03-03Electronic TimesVIDRAFT unveils AI metacognition benchmark 'FINAL Bench'
- 2026-02-27Asia EconomyVIDRAFT unveils AI metacognition evaluation benchmark 'FINAL Bench'
- 2026-02-27Seoul ShinmunVIDRAFT unveils AI metacognition benchmark 'FINAL Bench'
- 2026-02-27BehindVIDRAFT unveils AI metacognition benchmark 'FINAL Bench'... "AI can't fix its own mistakes"
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