North ML

North ML

North ML is an independent artificial intelligence and software engineering team focused on building practical machine-learning systems, developer tools, and experimental language models.

The team works directly on model training, dataset development, evaluation, inference, and software infrastructure. Rather than relying only on third-party AI APIs, North ML experiments with its own models and training pipelines to better understand how data quality, architecture, optimization, and curriculum design shape model behavior.

Model Series

• Starlight Mini (one model, discontinued series)
• Wind series (performed well, but it went.)
• Forge series (Possible return near the end of 2026, if I feel like it.)
• Aurora series (Properiatry at first, but any aurora model released not Aurora one is the open-source variant of the new Ember propieriatery series.)
• Ember series (New architecturally fundemental flagship models of the North ML series, starting releases near August 2026.)

Compute Info

• M4 Mac Mini (16 gb variant, Jul 2025)
• M4 MacBook Air (16 gb variant, Dec 2025)
• v6e-16 tpu (Google Tpu research cloud, Feb 27, 2026 - April 31, 2026)
• Rtx Pro 6000 (Google Cloud, Janurary/Feburary - May 2026, then Modal)
• 8x L4 (Trained Aurora One, Modal)
• L40S (Modal)
• Other Modal GPUs.
• 5060 Ti (Jul 2026)

Announcement (May 7, 2026 AD, 3:52 PM)

A new release is expected on May 8, possibly Wind Arc 1.7, Wind Edge 1.7, or something new altogether. Thank you for using our models. I hope you enjoy what’s next.

Announcement (May 10, 2026 AD, 9:59 PM)

Thanks to our friends at Modal for giving us ~$180 in free credit to use B200, L4, and other GPUs.