Noema-1 is live
Intelligence,
made legible.
NOETIC is a research lab building Noema — a family of models engineered so that their reasoning can be read, traced and argued with, not merely trusted.
The position
Every frontier model is a black box we agreed to stop opening. We think that trade was premature — and that legibility is not a tax on capability but a source of it.
Read the manifestoCapabilities
Five things we refuse to hand-wave.
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01 / Reasoning
It shows its work
Noema emits a structured derivation alongside every answer. Each step carries the evidence it consumed, so a wrong conclusion can be located rather than merely noticed.
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02 / Attention
Attention you can read
Every head is named, grouped and stable across fine-tunes. Our probe tooling maps them to human-legible functions — coreference, arithmetic carry, quotation boundary.
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03 / Memory
Memory that persists
A 1.2M-token working context with explicit eviction. Nothing silently falls out of scope; the model tells you what it forgot and why.
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04 / Alignment
Constraints, not vibes
Behaviour is specified as auditable predicates checked at decode time. When Noema declines, it cites the clause — and you can read the clause.
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05 / Efficiency
Small enough to own
Noema-Micro runs the same interpretability stack in 3.1B parameters, on a laptop, offline, with open weights.
By the numbers
Scale is a means. Here is the means.
Figures describe the Noema-1 production checkpoint as of the latest release. All numbers on this site are illustrative — NOETIC is a fictional lab built as a design exercise.
Recent work
From the lab.
- 2026 · 04 Carry Heads: arithmetic circuits that survive fine-tuning Interpretability
- 2026 · 02 Declining with a citation: auditable refusal predicates Alignment
- 2025 · 11 Eviction is a user interface: explicit forgetting at 1.2M tokens Systems
- 2025 · 09 Naming the heads: a stable taxonomy across 40 checkpoints Interpretability
Come look inside.
We are hiring interpretability researchers, systems engineers and one very patient technical writer.