BlackMind

BlackMind — AI Research Lab

Culturally relevant AI, for all of humanity.

BlackMind is an independent AI research lab. We build for humanity as a whole — advancing rigorous foundational research, and tools that take culture seriously.

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How we work

Ambitious for people. Exacting in method.

Proven, not just trained

Every capability claim is discharged by machine proof — SMT and SAT over the whole input space, not a benchmark sampled and hoped over.

Down to the metal

We work at the true substrate: raw compiled bytecode, Boolean logic gates, and standard-cell silicon — not the natural-language veneer on top.

Measured honestly

We adversarially audit our own instruments before we trust their numbers. The audit often recovers more signal than more training would.

Reproducible by receipt

Every number in a result re-derives from a committed, machine-checked receipt — a verification script that fails if the text and the measurement ever disagree.

Research

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September 2026

Alphamon: Bit-Exact GPU Self-Play, a Training-Free Value Bound, and Search-Dominated Play

An AlphaGo-style agent for the Pokémon TCG — with bit-exact GPU self-play, a training-free ceiling on what learning can buy, and search-dominated play.

  • Reinforcement learning
  • GPU systems
  • Evaluation
September 2026

Chasing the Small-Frontier on a Fixed Rig

A measurement-driven account of training a small language model to frontier quality on two fixed GPUs — with adversarial self-audit of the lab's own instruments.

  • Small language models
  • Evaluation
  • Measurement
September 2026

Large Binary Models

A model that learns to read and write compiled bytecode directly — no natural language in the loop.

  • Language models
  • Program synthesis
  • Compression
August 2026

Binary Circuit Models

Compiling a trained binary model into SAT-verified logic gates — and taping it out in 130nm silicon.

  • Hardware
  • Formal verification
  • Binary models

Products

Research, put to work.

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LiveCultural Analytics

Close reading of culture, at scale.

A computational-linguistics engine for the close reading of Black thought and culture — measuring rhetoric, lexicon, and structure across a curated corpus of discourse.

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The lab

BlackMind is an independent AI research lab at the Georgia Cyber Warfare Range. We build AI for humanity as a whole — culturally grounded, and rigorous enough to prove.

The work is published openly, with a public arXiv history and this site as its canonical home. Read more about the lab, or start with the research.

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