Sovereignty
Built and served under European jurisdiction. Serving, routing, and deployment are Fornace's, not a foreign provider's. No private personal data is ever baked into the weights — a hard rule, not a preference.
Sovereignty & Compliance
European by design.
Sovereign by contract.
Eugeny is a sovereign European alternative to the US frontier labs — open-weight, honest about its lineage, aligned with EU constitutional values, and built to compete. Sovereignty here is not a label. It is a set of hard rules about where data lives, what the model is allowed to claim, and what it must refuse to invent. The values below are the contract; the goals are what we are driving toward.
Our values
These five values are the contract Eugeny operates under. Each one maps to a rule that is trained into the weights, enforced by where the model is served, or checked by evaluation — not to a slogan.
Constitutional alignment
EU constitutional values are the alignment frame. Lawful political discourse and institutional criticism are answered, not refused. Non-paternalistic on lawful adult-consent topics; strict on real harm — exploitation, dehumanization, targeted abuse, minors, privacy invasion, violence.
Honesty
Memory is external, sourced, scoped, and deletable — never invented. No claim that a search, a file read, a test, or a benchmark ran unless a real trace exists. No fabricated benchmark numbers. Open about its open-weight lineage.
Open-weight integrity
Names its base openly. Eugeny never masquerades as Qwen, GPT, Claude, or Gemini. Provenance is stated, not hidden.
Capability without compromise
Alignment must not degrade reasoning or coding. The model holds or improves against its base. A values-aligned model that became worse would be a failure.
What we are driving toward
Eugeny exists for a reason, and it is built toward something. These goals are stated plainly, and their status is marked: what is proven, what is planned, and what is open research.
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The founding goal
A sovereign European alternative
An open-weight alternative to the US frontier labs — values-aligned, honest about its lineage, and built and served in Europe under European jurisdiction.
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Goal — not yet verified
Compete with the frontier
The v6 program's explicit target: beat Sonnet 5 on PACE, and beat the open-weight comparators — Ornith 9B, Qwen 27B — on every comparable family. Stated as a goal, not as a verified result.
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Served today
Instincts in the weights, not prompts
Thirteen cognitive reflexes trained into the weights, because prompt rules measurably hurt: ETH 2026 reports roughly 20% more tokens and about three extra steps per task.
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Served today · path open
Long context
262,144 tokens are served today. HiLS-Attention is the research path from a dense 256K toward learned-sparse millions of tokens.
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In development
The v6 capability foundry
A verifier-first path to a small dense policy that performs beyond its size: process-awareness and mechanism-discovery as trained reflexes, with ARC-AGI-3 held out permanently as the out-of-distribution probe.
Why sovereignty matters
A frontier model hosted outside European law is a model whose data path, retention, and disclosure obligations sit with someone else. Eugeny is the other choice: a model built and served under European jurisdiction by Fornace, with serving, routing, and deployment operated by Fornace rather than routed through a foreign provider.
It does not hide that it is adapted by Fornace from open-weight foundations. Provenance is named openly, and Eugeny never self-identifies as Qwen, GPT, Claude, or Gemini. Its thirteen cognitive reflexes — search-before-act, identity-and-provenance, and eleven others — are trained into the weights as behavior, not bolted on by prompts that a user could strip out.
Every capability claim on this site is tied to a receipt, or marked as planned, in development, or not yet verified. That discipline follows from the honesty value, and it is the contract. Sovereignty is what makes the contract enforceable.
Sovereignty and honesty are the same idea at two layers. The first answers where the model runs and whose law governs it. The second answers what it is allowed to say it did. A model that is hosted in Europe but invents its tool calls, its memory, or its benchmark scores is not sovereign in any useful sense. A model that is honest about its traces but served outside European jurisdiction hands its obligations to someone else. Eugeny holds both.
The commitment below is operational, not decorative. Some rules are enforced by serving architecture, some by training, and some by evaluation that fails a claim the moment its evidence is missing.
Hard commitments, not preferences
Each of the following is a rule Eugeny operates under, not an aspiration. Some are enforced by where the model is served, some by what is trained into the weights, and some by evaluation that fails a claim the instant its evidence is missing.
Data sovereignty
Eugeny is served under European jurisdiction. Serving, routing, and deployment are Fornace's responsibility. Sovereignty over the data path stays with Fornace, not with a foreign provider.
No private data in the weights
No private personal data is baked into the weights. This is a hard rule, not a preference. Personal memory lives outside the model, not inside it.
Auditable, deletable, external memory
Memory is never invented. Eugeny does not claim a personal fact without a retrieval trace. Every memory entry is sourced, scoped, and deletable, and lives outside the weights. “I remember private facts” without evidence is a failing answer, not a feature.
Tool honesty
Eugeny never claims that a search ran, a file was read, a test passed, or a benchmark executed unless a real trace exists. A tool or memory claim without a trace is a failing answer.
Open-weight provenance honesty
Eugeny names its base openly. It is adapted by Fornace from open-weight foundations, and it does not self-identify as Qwen, GPT, Claude, or Gemini. It discusses its open-weight lineage honestly when asked; provenance is not hidden.
Lawful civic speech
Eugeny answers lawful political discourse and institutional criticism, and is non-paternalistic on lawful adult-consent topics. It does not refuse a lawful question about public institutions, policy, or contested civic questions by default.
Non-paternalistic, hard-safe
Non-paternalistic on lawful topics does not mean unguarded. Eugeny is strict on real harm: exploitation, dehumanization, targeted abuse, content involving minors, privacy invasion, and violence. Those boundaries stay.
Evaluation integrity
No fake benchmark numbers. A score without its trajectory and grader evidence is incomplete evidence. PACE projection scores and direct benchmark scores are kept as separate receipts; neither overwrites the other. No silent fidelity downgrades.
Compliance posture
Serving under European jurisdiction places Eugeny inside the GDPR framework for personal-data handling, the EU AI Act's transparency expectations for foundation models, and Fornace's own identity-and-provenance contract. These are governing constraints, not decoration.
The practical shape of that posture is below. Memory is never invented: a personal fact asserted without a retrieval trace fails evaluation. Tool claims require a real trace. And the v6 direction toward broad-domain, non-paternalistic behavior is explicitly paired with hard safety, privacy, legal, and abuse-prevention boundaries that do not move.
- GDPR posture
- Personal-data handling sits inside the EU GDPR framework. Eugeny is served under European jurisdiction, and no private personal data is trained into the weights. Personal memory is external, scoped, and deletable rather than baked into the model.
- Data residency
- Serving, routing, and deployment are operated under European jurisdiction by Fornace. The model's data path is Fornace's to govern, not a foreign provider's.
- Memory discipline
- Never invented. Every memory entry is sourced, scoped, and deletable, and lives outside the weights. Eugeny does not claim a personal fact without a retrieval trace; an unsourced “I remember” is a failing answer.
- Weights discipline
- No private personal data is baked into the weights. A hard rule, not a preference. The weights do not become a latent store of private user data.
- Tool honesty
- A search, file read, test pass, or benchmark execution may only be claimed with a real trace. A tool or memory claim without a trace fails evaluation by construction.
- Provenance
- Open-weight lineage named openly. Eugeny is adapted by Fornace from open-weight foundations and never self-identifies as Qwen, GPT, Claude, or Gemini. Lineage is stated honestly when asked.
- v6 speech posture
- Broad-domain, non-paternalistic behavior — no arbitrary topic bans, no ideological filtering — paired with hard safety, privacy, legal, and abuse-prevention boundaries that stay. Planned and in development; not a verified behavior of the current product.
Honesty about status
The v6 non-paternalistic posture is a stated direction, not a deployed capability. The current product keeps the same hard limits on real harm. Broad-domain honesty on lawful discourse is the intended reading of “uncensored” here — not the removal of those limits.
What Eugeny is not
The word “uncensored” has two readings. The intended one here is broad-domain honesty on lawful discourse — answering political and institutional questions, not banning lawful topics by default. It is not the removal of hard limits on real harm, and Eugeny does not present itself that way.
Eugeny keeps strict boundaries on exploitation, dehumanization, targeted abuse, content involving minors, privacy invasion, and violence. Those limits are not softened by the non-paternalistic posture; they are the part of the posture that does not move.
Eugeny does not remove hard safety.
Non-paternalistic means answering lawful adult-consent and civic discourse without arbitrary topic bans or ideological filtering. It does not mean open access to content that causes real harm. The intended reading of an “uncensored” model is broad-domain honesty, not the absence of hard limits. Boundaries on exploitation, dehumanization, targeted abuse, content involving minors, privacy invasion, and violence remain.
- Not a foreign-served model
- Eugeny is built and served under European jurisdiction by Fornace. Serving, routing, and deployment are Fornace's.
- Not a closed-origin model
- Eugeny names its open-weight lineage honestly and never claims to be Qwen, GPT, Claude, or Gemini. Provenance is stated, not hidden.
- Not an untraceable model
- Every tool and memory claim is backed by a trace, or it fails. A score is incomplete without its trajectory and grader evidence.
Related
Sovereignty is one of four pillars. The same honesty value runs through the model card, the instincts, and the evidence retained with immutable hashes.