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Frontier reasoning model
GLM 5.3 open weights at FP8, self-hosted
Strongest open agentic model; the bespoke license exempts purely internal use from the model-as-a-service security-review trigger
Detector
RF-DETR, Apache-2.0 Nano to Large checkpoints, BF16
The practical sovereign answer to the AGPL gate; Plus XL and 2XL excluded from the serving path
Forecaster
Chronos-2, Apache-2.0, about 0.48 GB at 32 bit
Zero-shot multivariate forecasting with no field-of-use restriction; weights may be held, fine tuned and redistributed
Embeddings
BGE-M3, MIT, FP16
Dense plus sparse plus multi-vector retrieval in one pass with an 8,192-token window
Document parsing
PaddleOCR-VL 1.6, Apache-2.0, about 0.9B parameters, BF16
Strong on degraded multilingual scans; no user or revenue threshold; fine tuning permitted
Tracking
Roboflow trackers, Apache-2.0
Stable identity across frames without reintroducing copyleft after an Apache detector
Frontier node class
One node of 8 x 141 GB HBM GPUs (H200 class)
1,128 GB holds the 904 GB FP8 footprint with KV cache headroom
Edge compute class
The operator's NPU/GPU accelerators, sized from measured stream and decode load
Sizing is stated as a requirement and verified at the phase-one survey
Cameras reused subject to ONVIF reuse gates
The existing Vision AI IP camera estate, stream evidence, with gaps priced as new
Reuse on measured density, angle and class purchases
Time synchronization holdover, driving linuxptp and chrony
OCP Time Card GNSS grandmaster with cameras and process tags
One defensible chronology across detectors,
Edge orchestration disconnected install
Red Hat OpenShift AI self-managed, model serving, registry, pipelines and
Documented disconnected procedure for workbenches
Serving runtimes node
KServe at the edge, vLLM on the central
Model serving matched to each tier's load