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Training language models on one Mac, in the open.

Cogvera Labs runs Akeratos, an open lab, and makes open-source tools for building with AI. Every result links to its run.

Run Akeratos on your Mac

Transformer core 162 million active parameters

n-gram table 6.0 billion parameters

Akeratos Billet’s parameters, drawn to scale.

Source:Billet’s model card on Hugging Face, 14 November 2026

Solved in public.

Cogvera Labs is an R&D lab in Perth for the hard problems standard AI tools leave unsolved.

Akeratos by Cogvera Labs

A 6.0-billion-parameter table, trained in one Mac’s memory.

We started Akeratos to do our own research on a Mac, not on rented data-centre GPUs. Akeratos Billet pairs a core of 162 million active parameters with a learned table of 6.0 billion. The table was trained resident in the unified memory of one MacBook Pro (M4 Max, 48 GB), with no offloading code. Billet’s twin trained on the same tokens with the table switched off, so the gap between the two measures the table’s effect.

Held-out bits per byte, lower is better: 0.8866 with the table, 0.9030 without it. One seed per arm, on one MacBook Pro with an M4 Max (40 GPU cores, 48 GB) and MLX 0.32.3.

Source:Akeratos’s result page on GitHub, 14 November 2026

The agent harness

Row-level security, tested before an agent’s work lands.

Row-level security is the database rule that keeps one user’s rows from another’s. On 14 October 2026, UpGuard reported 16,326 Supabase databases exposing readable tables. Our agent harness runs row-level security tests against a real Postgres when Claude Code tries to end its turn, and sends it back to work if they fail. CI runs the same tests on every pull request.

Source:UpGuard, 14 October 2026

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Tools for building with AI

The agent harness

A free CLI for Next.js and Expo apps on Supabase. We built it to check the work of the AI coding agents that write our code: quality is a gate, not a request.

For learners

New to training models? The smallest Akeratos model trains on a laptop.

How we work

Our rule for all of it: prove, don’t claim.

  • Every number we report links to where it came from.
  • Each of the agent harness’s 37 gates is documented with a proof that it can fail.

    Source:the gates catalogue on GitHub, 11 November 2026

  • Akeratos publishes negative results, and every score in full, favourable or not.
  • AI coding agents write most of our code. One person answers for every line.

About the lab

Work with us

We take paid R&D work on one hard problem at a time, and it uses or improves the tools on this page. It starts with two free hours on the real problem.

How we take on work