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| <h1>GoAutomate AI Institute</h1> | |
| <h3>Canadian Sovereign AI, built for public benefit 🍁</h3> | |
| **Accessible · Responsible · Canadian‑governed** | |
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| <em>Advancing efficient, sovereign artificial intelligence for Canada — and sharing the methods with the world.</em> | |
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| ## 🏛️ Who we are | |
| The **GoAutomate AI Institute** is a not‑for‑profit advancing **Canadian sovereign artificial intelligence** — AI models, tools, and research designed for Canadian organizations and aligned with Canadian values, ethics, and governance. | |
| We don't believe Canada has to win only the race toward ever‑larger frontier models. **Purpose‑built, efficient, Canadian‑governed models** can deliver real outcomes in real environments — hospitals, health authorities, public institutions, businesses, researchers, and not‑for‑profits — while keeping people in control and accountable. | |
| This organization is where we publish our **open‑weight models, inference research, and technical reports.** | |
| ### At a glance | |
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| | **Mission** | Canadian sovereign AI, for public benefit | | |
| | **Model family** | **Terna** — ternary‑weight models (*Latin* terni, "three each") | | |
| | **First release** | **Terna‑E2B** — ternary distillation of Gemma‑4‑E2B *(pre‑release)* | | |
| | **Format** | GGUF · runs on `llama.cpp` | | |
| | **Flagship report** | TR‑2026‑001 · [DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21110909](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21110909) | | |
| | **Structure** | Not‑for‑profit · open weights | | |
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| ## 🔬 Our research bet: ternary | |
| Modern AI isn't limited by intelligence — it's limited by **the cost of storing and moving it**. Most of the cost of running a language model is the memory bandwidth spent streaming billions of weights for every token, and the arithmetic of multiplying them. | |
| **Ternary** representation constrains every weight to one of three values — **{ −1, 0, +1 }** — and attacks both costs at once: | |
| | ≈ 8–10× smaller | Multiply‑free | Capability preserved | | |
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| | Each weight carries ≈ **1.58 bits** (log₂3) instead of 16 — roughly an order of magnitude below half precision, and about half the size of 4‑bit quantization. | A weight in { −1, 0, +1 } turns the expensive multiply into **add**, **subtract**, or **skip**. Roughly a third of the work disappears as structured sparsity. | Reached through **distillation** — a ternary student trained to reproduce a high‑precision teacher, so the constraint is *learned*, not imposed after the fact. *Subtract cost, not intelligence.* | | |
| The payoff spans hardware generations: ternary's footprint lets capable models **fit on memory‑constrained edge devices** and **revive legacy datacenter GPUs** that modern models had outgrown — extending the useful life of existing silicon — while on modern accelerators the same savings mean **far more concurrent users per device**. It's an environmental story as much as a performance one: less energy per token, fewer accelerators per unit of served intelligence, and a slower path to e‑waste. | |
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| ## ⭐ Featured release — Terna‑E2B | |
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| **Terna‑E2B** is our first release, and the first in the **Terna** family of ternary‑weight models (*Terna*, from Latin *terni*, "three each"). It is a ternary (≈1.6‑bit) distillation of **Gemma‑4‑E2B**, a capability‑dense model with a **transparent, Western open‑weight lineage**, distributed as **GGUF** for efficient local and datacenter serving. | |
| > ⚠️ **Pre‑release checkpoint.** The published weights are an early checkpoint (~1B training tokens), shared to demonstrate the method and invite community evaluation. **Production weights (~15B tokens) with full capability benchmarks will follow and replace them.** We defer quantitative capability claims to that release rather than over‑state a pre‑release checkpoint. | |
| *Browse the model repositories in this organization for files, quantizations, and usage.* | |
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| ## 🎯 Why Gemma‑4 as the base | |
| - **Exceptional intelligence‑per‑FLOP.** An already capability‑dense family; ternary distillation compounds that efficiency. | |
| - **Elastic architecture.** The E2B ("effective‑2B") design fits edge and multi‑tier deployment — and ternary lowers the floor of that range further. | |
| - **Provenance you can defend.** For regulated and sovereignty‑sensitive sectors — healthcare, public sector, critical infrastructure — the *provenance* of a model's knowledge is a governance requirement, not a preference. A transparent, auditable, Western open‑weight base gives the resulting ternary model a clear, documentable lineage. **Efficiency should not come at the cost of provenance.** | |
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| ## ⚙️ An engine built to spend ternary's footprint on throughput | |
| Ternary's memory savings are only as valuable as a serving stack's ability to convert them into useful work. We maintain an inference engine (a fork of the open‑source `llama.cpp` lineage) tuned so footprint becomes **concurrency and throughput**: | |
| - **Footprint → concurrent contexts** — small weights leave far more device memory for KV cache, so one accelerator serves many more simultaneous sessions. | |
| - **Hardware‑best matmul dispatch** — the engine picks the path that fits the device by batch size, so capability‑dense models serve efficiently even on GPUs that lack dedicated matrix‑multiply units. | |
| - **Device‑side sampling** and **shared‑prefix / cross‑session cache reuse** — agentic workloads pay for a large shared system prompt once, not once per user. | |
| We validate this across **deliberately different accelerator families** — legacy datacenter GPUs and earlier‑generation tensor‑core GPUs — to prove the ternary‑plus‑engine approach spans hardware generations. Every serving optimization is held to a **token‑identical correctness gate** before it ships: throughput work never silently degrades output. | |
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| ## 📄 Research | |
| [](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21110909) | |
| - **[TR‑2026‑001 — *Ternary Foundations for Efficient, Sovereign AI*](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21110909)** — the mathematics of ternary, why Gemma‑4, the engine that turns footprint into throughput, and the implications for legacy and modern hardware. *(Zenodo · CC‑BY‑4.0)* | |
| - **TR‑2026‑002 — *Quantization‑Aware Training and Ternary Weights: Method vs. Representation*** — clears the "QAT vs ternary" category error and places both on one efficiency curve. | |
| Further reports — on serving engines across accelerator families, multi‑GPU parallelism for heterogeneous fleets, shared‑context concurrency, ternary at larger scales, and governable agentic orchestration — are on the Institute's roadmap. | |
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| ## 🤝 What we stand for | |
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| | 🍁 **Sovereignty** | Reduce dependency on foreign‑controlled AI models and infrastructure; support Canadian laws, governance, and interests. | | |
| | 🛡️ **Responsibility** | Steerable, explainable, accountable, secure systems that keep humans at the helm. | | |
| | 🌐 **Accessibility** | Capable models, tools, and documentation available to organizations across Canada. | | |
| | ⚡ **Efficiency** | Capability that scales **down** in cost as readily as it scales up in ability. | | |
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| ## 📬 Get involved | |
| The GoAutomate AI Institute welcomes collaboration with **Canadian organizations, healthcare systems, public institutions, researchers, policymakers, and technology leaders** who share our commitment to responsible and accessible AI. | |
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