# The machine room: our own models and engines · Fornace

> Scintilla at 166 tokens/s on a MacBook, Imagineer at 1.4 s per image, Eugeny squeezed to 2 bits, Torchio, Forgia, the Gateway and Matchbox.

# The machine room.

We could resell someone else's AI and add a margin. Instead we build the models, the engines that run them and the plumbing that lets a company use them safely. Everything here was built in Valpolicella, and most of it runs on a laptop you can buy in a shop.

## scintilla

**The fast one.** A 2-billion-parameter language model that runs on any Mac with an Apple chip. It starts from MiniCPM5, an open model; the training, the compression and the engine are ours, written from scratch in C and Metal.

```readout
166 tokens/s    q8, MacBook Pro M5 Max, short context
148 tokens/s    after an 8,500-token prompt
2.3×            median speed-up with its own speculative drafter, same output
97.85%          top-1 agreement with the full-precision model
```

## imagineer

**A studio on your Mac.** Images, vision and video on the computer in front of you. No internet, nothing uploaded, no data-centre graphics card.

[[Explore Imagineer|https://fornace.app/imagineer]]

```readout
1.4 s           one 512 px image, 4 steps, warm
5.0 s           one 1024 px image, 4 steps, warm
95 s            five seconds of video with synchronised sound
                MacBook Pro M5 Max, 48 GB
```

## eugeny

**The heavyweight that fits in a backpack.** Eugeny 5.1 already answers from our servers, reads images and keeps 262,144 tokens in mind. Eugeny 6, in training now, takes a 27-billion-parameter model down to 2 bits and 7.6 GB, so it can run on a laptop.

```readout
7.6 GB          27 billion parameters at 2 bits
20 of 20        finds a code hidden in 32,000 tokens of text
262,144         tokens of context, Eugeny 5.1
```

## torchio

**The press.** It squeezes large models down to 2 bits and keeps what they know.

```readout
2.2×            more accurate than plain 2-bit rounding
```

## forgia

**Where the models are born.** Data, training on rented GPUs, exams and releases, run as jobs that leave a record. Every model we ship comes out of here with its family tree, its signature and the previous version ready to restore.

## gateway

**One door.** Every AI model the company uses, ours and other people's, behind a single entrance. Budgets per person, automatic failover when a provider goes down. Written in Rust with zero dependencies.

## matchbox

**Nobody carries a password.** Matchbox keeps the secrets and performs the sensitive actions itself, so people, apps and AI agents never hold a key. Everything is denied until someone grants it. Passkey sign-in. A log nobody can edit.

```readout
21              connectors
```

## fornace.net

**Describe it, it gets built.** Our software studio, turned into a machine anyone can use: a playable voxel world, a sprint-training app, a property research tool and Bonazzi's wine shop were all built by describing them.

[[Open fornace.net|https://fornace.net]]

## and the rest

**hammersmith**, an agent that sees long jobs through. **waynode**, an open-source workspace for coding agents. **sentia**, brand and creator monitoring for Italy, twice a day.

When a server dies halfway through a job, our systems pick up where they stopped. No duplicates, no gaps.