From the desk of Apex research + engineering
Two-minute read; links to the underlying papers, model cards and case studies inline.
01 · Research progress
Hypersonic re-entry workload landed with real-gas thermochemistry. Mach 8 stagnation flux validation against CUBRC at 4.2% error. External safety red-team published findings; we remediated and re-tested before this letter.
02 · Customer wins
First sovereign air-gapped Aether deployment is now live at a national-lab partner. Workload: defence-engineering trajectory analysis. ITAR-clean compartment. Zero outbound traffic.
03 · Model-card diffs
Refusal-corpus extension shipped with the v0.9 release: hypersonics weaponisation categories now refused at the tool-policy layer.
04 · An open question
How should we evaluate refusal accuracy when the refusal corpus itself is sensitive? Reply.
05 · What we read
- (1) External safety red-team report — partner.
- (2) On sovereign-air-gapped Aether deployments — Holst.
- (3) Hypersonics validation summary — research desk.