Autonomous Intelligence
at the Edge.
DarkGhost Intelligence is an independent AI research organization. We build compact foundation models and sovereign agent systems engineered from the silicon up to run natively on mobile devices.
The future of AI does not belong in warehouse server racks.
Centralized AI concentrates surveillance, enforces ongoing cloud rent, and introduces latency. True autonomy requires intelligence to reside in the exact place human life happens: on your personal device.
Silicon Sovereignty
Your intelligence must be owned by you. When models execute entirely on your device's Neural Engine, no company can inspect your queries, revoke your access, or train on your personal life.
Zero-Latency Agency
True agents must perceive and react in real-time. By eliminating cloud round trips, edge-native foundation models interact fluidly with the physical and digital world.
Thermal & Energy Efficiency
Building models that perform rich multimodal reasoning within a mobile thermal envelope forces algorithmic elegance over brute-force cloud compute waste.
Foundational Research Directions
Our research focuses on the intersections of compact foundation models, on-device memory, and autonomous task execution.
Compact Parameter Reasoning
Researching extreme distillation, sub-4-bit weight representations, and attention sparsification designed specifically for unified memory architectures on modern Apple chips.
- Low-rank adaptation on mobile NPUs
- Quantized speculative decoding pipelines
- Deterministic sub-millisecond token streams
Governed On-Device Agency
Building tool-calling and workflow orchestration frameworks where the model acts across local applications with mathematically verifiable permission boundaries.
- Strict sandbox tool invocation
- Multi-step plan decomposition on device
- Zero telemetry execution graphs
Encrypted Local Knowledge Graphs
Long-term memory architectures that capture personal context, habits, and preferences stored exclusively in encrypted SQLite stores with zero cloud sync required.
- On-device vector embeddings & clustering
- Differential privacy for local updates
- Hardware-backed biometric access control
APPLIED INTELLIGENCE · CONSUMER AGENT
DarkGhost Agent
Our first public manifestation of edge intelligence. An autonomous companion that runs 100% on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
We took our on-device foundation models and shaped them into an everyday assistant that helps you organize your schedule, summarize notes, find photos, and take action—with absolute privacy.
Connect with DarkGhost Intelligence
We welcome collaboration with researchers, hardware teams, and contributors advancing edge intelligence.