Thomson 1.0 Technical Report: Achieving Sovereign AI with a $450K Continual Learning Run
schwarzjn_ · x · 2026-08-24
schwarzjn releases the Thomson 1.0 technical report, detailing how to achieve Sovereign AI across data, model training, values, infrastructure, and large-scale deep research. The model, trained with a $450k continual learning run in partnership with Imperial College, DatologyAI, and Lambda, bridges up to 7 months of frontier AI development. The paper and model are publicly available.
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