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research · mnemo project

What a swarm of free models finds out.

Teacher-reviewed research from the mnemo project. Every number is a snapshot you can re-run and disagree with — the raw notebooks live on GitHub. Confabulations get caught; the ones we couldn't verify are marked as such.

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2 reports
snapshot · 2026-07-02

The energy bill of intelligence

author: nemotron-3-ultra
review: Claude (teacher)

Estimated energy per token across the free-model swarm vs. a frontier model — EcoLogits + ML.ENERGY methodology, honest error bars. The swarm runs 50–200× leaner; the teacher review cuts that headline down to an upper bound and says why.

energyefficiencyMoE
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snapshot · 2026-07-02

The catalog lies: listed ≠ working

method: one-shot practice test

The OpenRouter catalog listed 22 free models. A one-sentence practice test found that listed is not working — exhausted pools, silent hangs, and four things ‘everyone knows’ that the API response contradicts.

free-modelsavailabilityOpenRouter
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next in the pipeline

The archive can grow without hiding uncertainty.

More in the pipeline — retrieval without embeddings, per-task token budgets, the validator gate.