First Device Models, Trained In-House

On October 27, 2026 — Kickstarter launch day — THOX built its in-house training rails and produced its first device models with them: a voice-command LoRA pilot on LFM3-1.7B (held-out: 1/14 function names, 0/14 full exact matches — pipeline evidence, not a production adapter) and a five-model edge wave gated by the 49-question GATE49 factuality gate. Every gate verdict in Waves A and B is FAIL under the gate's zero-hard-failure policy; the paper reports verified recall (of 12) as the primary figure beside each total. Wave B (982-row corpus) took ThoxEdge-0.5B from 21/49 to 47/49 (verified 11/12) against a constant-abstainer floor of 25/49; ThoxEdge-0.8B's Wave B artifact was never validly measured and was held. An eleven-class failure taxonomy, a model-card rule, and a full provenance register accompany the results. This Third Edition is a Process v1.0 reissue of the Second Edition (hardened v2.1, 2026-10-30) in the THOX Research Paper Template v1.0, content unchanged except the recorded sweep and edition changes.