PYRACORE

Pyracore is a fictional model-training company. The foundry design follows an imagined model through training, checkpointing and evaluation.

Walk the floor Scroll — the corridor cools as you go

Heat, then discipline.

The temperature gauge follows three stages in the design: melt, pour and cool. The interface demonstrates the concept; it does not train a model.

MELT

Pretraining at full temperature. Crucible keeps thousands of accelerators at heat for weeks, folding raw text, code, and telemetry into one glowing charge.

GAUGE · 1600°C · MOLTEN

POUR

Checkpoints are castings. Every pour is stamped with its charge sheet — what went in, when, and at what heat — so a model's history reads like a mill record.

GAUGE · 900°C · FORGING

COOL

Alignment is a cooling schedule, not an afterthought. Behavior is tempered in staged passes while the weights are still workable, and we stop when the metal stops moving.

GAUGE · 180°C · QUENCH

Five alloys leave this floor.

Five imagined products give this model-foundry concept its structure. Each has a specific role in the process.

CRUCIBLE

Holds the melt. Scheduling, checkpointing, and failure hand-off for very long pretraining runs — the furnace keeps temperature even when hardware does not.

orchestrator · self-hosted

INGOT

Base weights cast in three sizes, bench to bridge. A plain-spoken composition sheet ships in the crate: data mix, heat curve, known soft spots.

base weights · open card

QUENCH

Rapid alignment passes that lock a model's behavior the way cold oil locks steel grain. Refusals, tone, and format set in one controlled dip.

hardening · staged passes

ANVIL

A serving layer hammered flat: one binary, cold starts under a breath, batching that never asks you to think about it. The dull part, done well.

runtime · one binary

SLAG REPORT

Everything the melt rejected, itemized. Failure cases, refusal misses, hallucination clusters — published as a running log, not a press release. The failure log is the product; read it before you buy anything else.

POUR 0117ingot-27b · refusal miss under rephrased harm prompt — safety quench repeated, entry stays open
POUR 0116ingot-7b · date arithmetic drifts past three hops — soft spot printed on the card
POUR 0114crucible · checkpoint hand-off stalled on node loss — fixed, retested cold
POUR 0112quench · tone set too hard, casting rejected — recast from the prior pour
evals · public log

Three rules, stamped into everything.

A foundry runs on procedure, not mood. These are ours.

Rule of the pour

Every pour is logged.

Weights travel with their charge sheet — data sources, heat curve, cooling schedule — from raw charge to shipped alloy. If the record is incomplete, the metal does not leave.

Rule of the alloy

No secret alloys.

If we cannot print the composition, we do not ship the metal. Model cards are written for the person holding the part, not the person selling it.

Rule of the floor

Cool before you ship.

Nothing leaves the floor still glowing. Evals run until the needle stops, then run again cold. A model that only performs warm is a casting flaw, not a feature.

PYRACORE is a fictional foundry. The failure entries above are examples written for the design study, not a record of trained models or customer runs.

Run a pour from your terminal.

One call charges the furnace. Five stages report back as they happen — the same states the wall gauge reads.

CHARGEStage raw material. Your corpus is weighed, deduplicated, and loaded into the crucible manifest.
MELTFull-heat pretraining or continued training, held at temperature until loss settles.
POURA checkpoint is cast and stamped with its complete charge sheet.
QUENCHBehavior locks in staged alignment dips — refusals, tone, format.
TEMPERFine adjustment on your own workshop data, then a final cold eval before release.
POST /v1/pourapi.pyracore.ai
{
  "charge": "corpus/steelworks-mix",
  "melt":   { "hours": 400, "heat": "white" },
  "pour":   "ingot-27b",
  "quench": ["behavior", "format"],
  "temper": "workshop/your-data"
}

// 201 — the furnace answers
{
  "state":  "MOLTEN",
  "temp_c": 1600,
  "gauge":  "wss://api.pyracore.ai/v1/gauge/9F2K"
}

20°C · Tempered

COLD STEEL

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You arrived at ambient temperature. The blade above is quenched.