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A short record of milestones. Model development, research, and products. Posted as they happen.
Jul 6, 2026
Building in the open
Our site is now public. A plain note on what Sential Innovations is (an independent community, not a company) and how to read the honest status labels across the site.
Community
Jun 16, 2026
Hikaru-1 enters development
Work begins on our first model, a finetune of IBM Granite 4.1 (8B) trained with Explanatory Reinforcement Learning. The first real test of our central research direction.
Models