One mind.
Many
machines.
Primordia is building Prime, a foundation model with native weights, to become the shared mind of a fleet of autonomous machines. Every machine carries a fork of Prime. Every mission sends experience home, and every machine gets smarter. It starts with SCOUT 250. It ends wherever there's a machine that needs to think for itself.
- PRIME V1 · 493M PARAMETERS
- NEXT · 1B PARAMETERS
- FLIGHT SOFTWARE V0.0.4 · RUST · 2 KHZ
- SCOUT 250 · FIRST FLIGHT NOVEMBER 2026
Intelligence
that lives where
the work is.
Big, centralized systems tend to fail exactly when they're needed most. We're building machines that think where they are, with no network, no data center, and no outside model in the loop. That kind of autonomy should belong to small teams and local communities, not only to the largest companies.
A mind that
grows with
its fleet.
Prime is our own model, with native weights. It sits at the hub, at the center of everything we build.
From Prime we derive forks, specialists shaped for one machine and one job. A fork goes out into the world and does its whole job on its own. It then sends its experience home. Prime learns from every fork, and each new Prime is stronger than the last because the fleet taught it.
- VERSION
- Prime v1The first of many. Each new Prime replaces the last at the hub, and every fork can be upgraded from it.
- SIZE
- 493M parameters today; ~1B nextPrime's size follows the fleet: it grows as the machines and jobs it serves grow.
- TRAINING
- Pretrained to 10B tokens on NVIDIA A100sThen post-trained with SFT and RL.
- MEMORY
- EmberThe fleet's shared memory. What one machine learns, every machine can use, once a person has reviewed and signed it.
- FIRST FORK
- SCOUT ground stationPilot assistant, flight debrief and experience uplink for SCOUT 250. It runs beside the aircraft, not on it.
- HOW IT GROWS
- Earned trustPrime starts as an advisor, and each new job is earned by passing our own qualification exams. Humans always set the limits.
Every layer.
Ours.
Primordia V2 flies SCOUT 250. It is the flight controller on the aircraft, the signed link to the ground and the console in the pilot's hands.
We wrote every layer, down to the inner loop. Open-source autopilots are the benchmarks we test against, not code we ship.
It's built for machines that have to be trusted on their own. Every command is signed and every flight is recorded for replay. Two thousand times a second the aircraft checks its fence, its limits and its own health, and it holds, returns or lands when something is wrong. Every release is proven in simulation first, against wind, sensor faults and failures.
SCOUT 250 is the first aircraft. The signed link, the recorder and the supervisor are built to carry over to the machines that come next.
- VERSION
- 0.0.4One number for the vehicle, firmware and console.
- FLIGHT CORE
- Rust, no_std, 2 kHzAttitude and rate control, navigation filter, fault supervisor, geofence.
- LINK
- Signed, encrypted commandsSealed telemetry downlink at 10 Hz.
- CONSOLE
- Runs on your own machinePlan, check, upload, fly, intervene and replay. A simpler Fly app for first-time pilots.
- VEHICLE
- SCOUT 250Sub-250 g quadcopter, 2S, 4 in props. Made in America.
- EVIDENCE
- Host tests, simulation, Monte CarloSoftware-in-the-loop flight simulator and dispersed test campaigns.
- NEXT
- First flightSCOUT 250 flies this month on the first-flight build.
Five rules.
Every machine.
- 01
Native weights
Every fork comes from a Prime checkpoint with its training data on record. Outside models are only baselines.
- 02
One mind, one center
One root of trust, one ledger, one shared memory.
- 03
The piece is real
Every fork does its whole job with no network. Nothing calls home to think.
- 04
Memories, not weights
A fork never rewrites its own weights. They change only through a signed release.
- 05
Connected, not dependent
Messages are store-and-forward with a deadline. None sits in a control loop.
Where it's
going.
- NOW
- Flight software 0.0.4 is released.Prime v1 is trained and running at the hub, with signed releases and rollback.
- NOVEMBER 2026
- SCOUT 250 first flight.
- NEXT
- Prime at ~1B parameters.The SCOUT fork is fine-tuned on real flight experience and qualified on our debrief exam.
- THEN
- More forks for more drones and robots.Each one a specialist, all one mind, and every new machine making the fleet smarter.
- HORIZON
- One mind, wherever our machines go.A distributed intelligence that travels with the fleet, on Earth and beyond.
Updated 3 November 2026. If this page and the code disagree, the code wins.
Flight
software.
- 0.0.4 · 2026-11-02
- Fence-buffer target check, stuck-barometer and slow-GPS fixes, propulsion fixes.
- 0.0.3 · 2026-10-30
- The installed console app, the Fly app for first-time pilots, smoother waypoint corners, landing fixes.
- 0.0.2 · 2026-10-22
- Fixes found by the first simulation test campaign.
- 0.0.1 · 2026-10-21
- First numbered version, before the campaign.
Follow
the work
New Prime versions, flight software releases and SCOUT 250's first flight, posted here as they happen.
Contact mike@primordiagi.com