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  <title>Vext Labs — Theron AI</title>
  <subtitle>Notes from Vext Labs — Theron, a unified AI by a Maryland research lab. One AI entity, thirty domain specialists.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-04-24T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Maryland-based AI lab announces Council of 30 specialists</title>
    <link href="https://tryvext.com/about" />
    <id>tag:tryvext.com,2026-01-12:/about</id>
    <updated>2026-01-12T14:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-01-12T14:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Vext Labs, a Maryland AI research lab founded by Annalea Layton, formally introduces its Council of 30 thesis: one unified AI entity, Theron, backed by thirty domain specialists sharing a single foundation model. The architecture trades generalist averaging for direct domain training, with every specialist inheriting the same tokenizer and embedding space.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Theron AI launched</title>
    <link href="https://tryvext.com/theron" />
    <id>tag:tryvext.com,2026-01-30:/theron</id>
    <updated>2026-01-30T15:30:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-01-30T15:30:00Z</published>
    <summary>Theron, the unified AI entity from Vext Labs, opens free public chat at theron.tryvext.com. Theron presents one mind, one chat surface, one voice — backed internally by a council of thirty domain specialists that deliberate in formal artifacts and reconcile through Council-D before answering.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Capability Injection Protocol explained</title>
    <link href="https://tryvext.com/technology" />
    <id>tag:tryvext.com,2026-02-14:/technology</id>
    <updated>2026-02-14T13:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-02-14T13:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Vext Labs publishes the full Capability Injection Protocol: freeze the existing foundation, organically upscale by adding new transformer layers, train only the new layers via LoRA on primary-source data, and gate every release on a regression benchmark. Adding a new specialist preserves prior capability bit-for-bit.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Theron-Cyber specialist released</title>
    <link href="https://tryvext.com/theron-cyber" />
    <id>tag:tryvext.com,2026-02-28:/theron-cyber</id>
    <updated>2026-02-28T16:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-02-28T16:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Theron-Cyber, the council's offensive-security specialist, ships as the first live member of the Theron fleet. The specialist focuses on vulnerability research, penetration testing, and security analysis, with audited security and code benchmarks and a published methodology for reproducibility.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Council architecture published</title>
    <link href="https://tryvext.com/hive" />
    <id>tag:tryvext.com,2026-03-12:/hive</id>
    <updated>2026-03-12T14:30:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-03-12T14:30:00Z</published>
    <summary>The HIVE-Council architecture is documented end to end: how the router dispatches a query to relevant specialists in parallel, how each specialist emits a formal artifact rather than natural-language chatter, and how Council-D reconciles those artifacts into one response with verifiable provenance.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Theron-Coder specialist released</title>
    <link href="https://tryvext.com/fleet" />
    <id>tag:tryvext.com,2026-03-25:/fleet</id>
    <updated>2026-03-25T17:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-03-25T17:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Theron-Coder joins the council as the software-engineering specialist, covering more than fifty languages and the full code-review lifecycle. Built on the same Theron-Base via the Capability Injection Protocol, the specialist is licensable for enterprise deployment alongside its adapter audit trail.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Live web search via Brave</title>
    <link href="https://theron.tryvext.com" />
    <id>tag:tryvext.com,2026-04-08:/news</id>
    <updated>2026-04-08T15:45:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-04-08T15:45:00Z</published>
    <summary>Theron Chat now supports live web search via the Brave Search API. Users can opt into real-time web grounding for time-sensitive queries; the council continues to deliberate internally and the user still sees one unified answer with citations attached when search is invoked.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>RLM (Recursive Language Models) integration</title>
    <link href="https://tryvext.com/research" />
    <id>tag:tryvext.com,2026-04-22:/research</id>
    <updated>2026-04-22T12:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-04-22T12:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Recursive Language Models land in the Theron stack: the council can now invoke itself with refined sub-prompts, enabling longer-horizon reasoning and self-correction without exiting the unified response surface. Methodology and audited security and code benchmarks are documented on the research page.</summary>
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