Technical report
Needle-1.0: a model for typed decisions
Architecture, training, evaluation, and limitations of a 395M-parameter decision model, with results tied to individual experimental checkpoints.
Independent research & engineering
Matter State Research
An independent research and engineering company studying intelligence, reasoning, and computational systems.
We develop models, software, and tools to investigate foundational questions and put the results to use.
Research directions
Knowledge and reasoning
How can models represent knowledge explicitly and use it reliably across multiple steps of computation?
Learning and decision-making
How can systems learn from observation and experience, and express decisions in forms that can be tested and used?
Computational systems
What architectures, software, and engineering tools make these ideas practical to investigate and apply?
Selected work
A product of Matter State Research
Needle-1.0
Needle answers typed questions about a supplied state, returning choices, scores, and probabilities in a single forward pass.
Product in development. The inference API is not yet available.
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We publish methods, results, and limitations so others can examine the work and build on it.
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