North ML

Announcement

The current Ember series (Ember Proelia, Ambi, Aethel) has been cancelled. The architecture was dispromising.

North ML

North ML is an independent artificial intelligence and software engineering team focused on building practical machine-learning systems, developer tools, and experimental language models.

The team works directly on model training, dataset development, evaluation, inference, and software infrastructure. Rather than relying only on third-party AI APIs, North ML experiments with its own models and training pipelines to better understand how data quality, architecture, optimization, and curriculum design shape model behavior.

Models in training

• Ember Proelia (still in pretraining, optimized small llm.)
• Ember Aestimare (still in planning, optimized mid-model for actual heavy tasks that require more intelligence.)
• Ember Velamen (A very optimized open source ai model with high quality and good smartness.)

Model Series

• Starlight Mini (one model, discontinued series)
• Wind series (performed well, but it went.)
• Forge series (Possible return near the end of 2026, if I feel like it.)
• Aurora series (Properiatry at first, but any aurora model released not Aurora one is the open-source variant of the new Ember propieriatery series.)
• Ember series (New architecturally fundemental flagship models of the North ML series, starting releases near August 2026.)

Compute Info

• M4 Mac Mini (16 gb variant, Jul 2025)
• M4 MacBook Air (16 gb variant, Dec 2025)
• v6e-16 tpu (Google Tpu research cloud, Feb 27, 2026 - April 31, 2026)
• Rtx Pro 6000 (Google Cloud, Janurary/Feburary - May 2026, then Modal)
• 8x L4 (Trained Aurora One, Modal)
• L40S (Modal)
• Other Modal GPUs.
• 5060 Ti (Jul 2026)

Announcement (May 7, 2026 AD, 3:52 PM)

A new release is expected on May 8, possibly Wind Arc 1.7, Wind Edge 1.7, or something new altogether. Thank you for using our models. I hope you enjoy what’s next.

Announcement (May 10, 2026 AD, 9:59 PM)

Thanks to our friends at Modal for giving us ~$180 in free credit to use B200, L4, and other GPUs.