Foundation-model lab

Foundation models for your industry

We train a foundation model on your industry and give you all of it. The model, the data behind it, and the eval report, running self-hosted on a single datacenter GPU. No APIs, no per-token bills, no weights you don't own.

30K+
Hugging Face downloads
4
Open checkpoints published
130+
Validated simulation cases
6
Platforms in production
0
Third-party API calls

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Core platforms

Three specialist systems form the centre of the company. The application products below turn their capabilities into focused workflows.

02.1 Language systems

Chaperone AI

Private language systems for specialist domains. They provide useful reasoning while keeping data within the chosen boundary.

  • Domain models
  • Reasoning
  • Controlled deployment
Visit Chaperone AI
02.2 Physics systems

Numerical AI

GPU-native simulation platforms for engineering. They support fluid dynamics, electromagnetics, and scale-resolving work.

  • CMF
  • CEM
  • SRS
Visit Numerical AI
02.3 Vision systems

Simvera

Industrial perception trained in simulation. It reduces manual labelling and transfers cleanly to real camera environments.

  • Synthetic data
  • Detection
  • Industrial vision
Visit Simvera

Focused applications

Capability, shaped into a task.

Focused tools support specific work. They share research and infrastructure across the portfolio.

A / 01

DeepResearch

Evidence-led research, document analysis, and report generation.

Language · research Explore
A / 02

PropensityAI

Grounded search and discovery with answer-level citations.

Language · search Explore
A / 03

AI 3D Generator

Text- and image-to-3D generation on a GPU-accelerated pipeline.

Geometry · creation Explore

The parent company

A common method.
Distinct products.

Empirisch Tech handles the difficult shared work. This includes applied research, evaluation, product incubation, and production infrastructure.

The shared foundation does not make every product the same. Language teams and simulation engineers need different interfaces. Factory cameras and research workflows need different evidence. Each platform is designed for its own field.

  • 01Specialise the productOne clear job and audience per platform.
  • 02Make evidence inspectableResults, limitations, and operating conditions belong together.
  • 03Design for controlDeployment and ownership are product decisions, not afterthoughts.

Open research

Public checkpoints from the Chaperone line.

Named models from chaperoneai.net, plus quantized DeepSeek checkpoints on Hugging Face, published so the work can be inspected, not just described.

Language

ModelWhat it isPublished resultAdapted fromWeights
Chaperone-Thinking-LQ-1.0 Domain reasoning model, ~20 GB, one L40 84% MedQA DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B Hugging Face
DeepSeek-LLM-67B-Chat-gptq-8bit 8-bit GPTQ chat model, 67B 58.11% ARC-Challenge DeepSeek-LLM-67B-Chat Hugging Face
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-gptq-4bit 4-bit GPTQ reasoning model, 70B 37.88% MMLU DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B Hugging Face

Physics

ModelWhat it isPublished resultAdapted fromWeights
Chaperone-Flow-1.0 Flow operator for bluff-body wakes and mixing layers 1.8% wake error Poseidon-B Hugging Face
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Palace-LoRA Writes and repairs Palace electromagnetics configs 3,296 schema pairs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Hugging Face

Vision

ModelWhat it isPublished resultAdapted fromWeights
yolox-pylon-s Edge-camera detector with COCO kept and cones added cone AP 74.5 · COCO 41.6 YOLOX-S Hugging Face
yolox-pylon-m Fixed-camera detector with an accuracy and speed balance cone AP 77.5 · COCO 46.8 YOLOX-M Hugging Face
yolox-pylon-l Server-side multi-stream detector cone AP 78.6 · COCO 48.5 YOLOX-L Hugging Face
yolox-pylon-xl Maximum-accuracy size for offline analysis in training YOLOX-X Vision page

How it works

Adapt a proven base, never train from scratch.

Four steps behind every checkpoint we've shipped, whether the domain is medical text, fluid dynamics, or a factory camera feed.

Step 01

Start from a proven base

A frontier open checkpoint brings the general capability, so your data doesn't have to.

for example DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B, Poseidon, or a YOLO backbone
Step 02

Adapt it to your domain

QLoRA and GPTQ for language, operator learning for physics, and synthetic frames for vision, without erasing what the base knows.

your data stays on your infrastructure
Step 03

Evaluate in the open

Every build is benchmarked against frontier models on public tasks and on regimes it has never seen.

accuracy, latency, and cost per query on your hardware
Step 04

Ship the whole build

Checkpoint, training set, eval report, and runbook, compressed to run self-hosted on a single datacenter GPU.

checkpoint · data · eval · runbook · no third-party APIs
Also on Azure Marketplace. Deploy our GPU inference VMs and desktop environments directly from Azure. View offerings →

Backed by the programmes we build on

NVIDIA Inception Program Microsoft for Startups AWS Activate Cloudflare for Startups LUMEIK-5G Austrian testbed

Past engagements

Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics IU International University Peek & Cloppenburg / Fashion Digital

The practice underneath

Somebody has to run the clusters the models land on.

The delivery engineering behind every build we ship, available on its own if that is what you need.

Different corpus, geometry, or label set?

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