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Inside Horizon

Notes from the systems, models, and research workflows behind North ML. See how Horizon turns questions into direct, inspectable output.

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VortexInternal research report 0.1

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Vortex: Progress Report on a Compact Language-Model Research Program

A functioning research prototype and training pipeline focused on useful instruction following, school-level reasoning, and lightweight local inference from roughly 175 million trainable parameters.

By North ML 12 min read

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01Retrieval 5 minEvidence First: Building Answers You Can Inspect 02Models 6 minSmall Models, Serious Research Economics 03Workflow 5 minFrom Question to Research Artifact

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Useful output. Visible limits. Less conversational performance.

Horizon is designed around research records you can reopen and inspect—not an endlessly growing chat transcript.