AQEA Gen-5 Substrate

Generation-5 is here.

The first AI representation that's provably better than the original — and runs on every chip you already own.

1.85× faster than FAISS-GPU23× smaller100% Bit-IdentityCUDA · Vulkan · Metal · WebGPU · AVX-512 · NEON

Two production applications

Where the substrate ships today.

Application 01

AQEA Shader

Hyperscale Vector Search

1.85×faster than FAISS-GPU

100% Bit-Identity across 4/4 backends

Same shader source compiles to CUDA, Vulkan, Metal, WebGPU. Same trit-state on every chip.

See the benchmark

Application 02

AQEA Edge

Sensor & IoT Inference

$200k–$3M

silicon savings per 10k-device fleet

13 industries validated above 80% floor

Remove the GPU/NPU line item. Run on x86, ARM, Apple, Browser — bit-identical.

Read the whitepaper

Substrate properties

Six load-bearing substrate properties.

P1–P6 define the AQEA substrate. Each is empirically anchored; the combination is what makes Gen-5 a generation distinction, not an algorithm change.

P1

Multi-channel Orthogonal

Three independent channel-bands (mid / high / DC) carry distinct functions in the same state without interference.

Δ = 0.00 pp (exact spectral-orthogonality)

P2

Byte-Deterministic Cross-Platform

Same input produces bit-identical output across CUDA, Vulkan, Metal, WebGPU, AVX-512, NEON.

26/26 tests PASS across 4 architectures

P3

Structural Compression with Ranking Preservation

23× smaller representation with recall-neutrality on retrieval tasks.

23–29× compression with bit-identical Top-K

P4

Encoder-Family Agnostic

13 domains × 6 transformer-encoder families + 4 classical-DSP, all above the 80% floor.

13 domains × 6 transformer-encoder families

P5

Noise-Resistant on Signal-Domains

Supra-trit regime in audit-mode. Phase-J falsification publicly documented as scientific discipline.

voraus-ad 133% · Digit_Fall 174% R-Ratio

P6

Reversibly Decodable

Pareto-Front decoder with Audit / General / Pure modes. 0.9968 R@10 lossless-equivalent.

Audit 96.7% · General 98.7% · Pure 99.7%+

The full comparison

The generation table, in full.

No prior generation has all three structural properties. Gen-5 is categorically different — not an incremental improvement.

GenExamplesInternal structure?Cross-platform exact?Reversible?Hardware
Gen 1TF-IDF, BM25sparsen/an/aCPU
Gen 2word2vec, GloVedense staticn/an/aCPU
Gen 3BERT, MPNet, E5contextual densenonoGPU-required
Gen 4OpenAI text-embedding-3, Cohere v3quantized contextualnonoGPU + CPU-ANN
Gen 5AQEA Mode-Classdiscrete structured substrateyes — byte-identical (P2)yes — Pareto-front (P6)CPU-native + every shader API

Verify cross-vendor

Encode here. Verify there. Bit-identical.

Cross-vendor Bit-Identity is the strongest claim in our portfolio. Test it yourself: encode on one platform, verify byte-identical on another.

Roadmap

What's on the substrate.

Today

Shader & Edge in production-grade reference deployments.

Q3–Q4 2026

Hardware-specific tuning for additional NPU/GPU silicon.

Beyond

Co-development engagements for bespoke encoder families.

Test Generation-5 on your workload.

Engineering eval is 4–6 weeks under NDA against your own retrieval workload and hardware.