AI consumes massive amounts of electricity. And the
consumption keeps rising. The International Energy Agency forecasts that AI systems will use
twice as much electricity by 2030 as they do today. Data centers across Europe and the United
States are queuing for grid connections. According to a small Belgian-French startup, the answer is
not more computing power but something simpler: better memory.
The hidden problem. Imagine asking an AI to analyze a long document. You ask one question.
The AI reads the entire document. You ask a second question. The AI reads it again, cover to
cover. And so on, with every question. After ten questions, the AI has read your report ten times.
This invisible repetition is by far the largest contributor to the runaway power and server bills
behind today's AI. Until now, the industry has treated it as inevitable.
Memory that survives. Anthropic and Google have built something similar, but their version lives
for only a few minutes and dies the moment a server restarts or the user is moved to another
machine. In real production environments this happens constantly, and the AI starts from scratch
every time. What Corbenic built, called Taliesin, persists: across a restart, across a server switch,
and even across a move to a different generation of graphics card. No other company in the world
can demonstrate that publicly.
How was this proven? Corbenic ran the same document through the same AI twice: once
normally, once with the memory restored by Taliesin. The test only passes when the two outcomes
are byte-identical, verified by a cryptographic "fingerprint" (the same kind of code used to confirm a
software download has not been tampered with). The tests ran on three public AI models from
Meta, Alibaba and Mistral, plus Corbenic's own open-source AI model Galahad-0.5B, which the
company trained for 600 euros as a public verification substrate. The results:
• 45 of 45 tests passed
• 60 of 60 tests passed in a follow-up matrix
• 64 of 64 generated words identical across two different generations of NVIDIA graphics card, in
both directions
Anyone can reproduce these tests with the public AI models, the open Community Edition of the
engine, and a standard hash tool. No NDA, no license, no access to proprietary source code
required.
International scientific endorsement. The scientific publication of Merlin on arXiv was endorsed
by Prof. Danqi Chen (Princeton University) and Prof. Xipeng Qiu (Fudan University,
Shanghai), two leading names in natural language processing.
Where the giants assume, Corbenic proves. NVIDIA and China's Moonshot already build
systems that move AI memory between servers, but publish no mathematical proof that the
transfer is correct. The dominant approach: compress with loss, and hope it is good enough.
A stack that attacks the problem from both ends. Alongside Taliesin, Corbenic also built
Merlin: a program that removes redundant data from AI systems before any computation begins.
Merlin has been published scientifically and tested on 22 million text passages; its Community
Edition is open-source. The combination of Merlin and Taliesin can cut recurring compute costs by
more than 90 percent in workloads such as customer service, legal analysis or enterprise
reporting.
"For two years, the entire sector has been fixated on building ever-larger models," says Sietse
Schelpe, founder and CEO of Corbenic AI and currently Tech AI Lead at the Belgian postal
operator Bpost on a freelance assignment. "We focused on something simpler: a better memory.
Three founders, one developer and two Parisian astrophysicists as scientific advisors. A small
team turns out to be capable of doing what billion-dollar companies do not even try."
Availability
• Galahad-0.5B (open-source weights): https://huggingface.co/Corbenic/Galahad-0.5B-base
• Merlin Community Edition (open source): https://github.com/corbenicai/merlin-community
• Verification receipts: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Corbenic/taliesin-receipts
About Corbenic AI
Corbenic AI is a Delaware-incorporated company with operational headquarters in Oostkamp
(West Flanders, Belgium) and scientific advisory in Paris. The company develops infrastructure
that lowers the operating cost of AI without loss of accuracy..
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