What is Kairos?
Kairos is a specialized 8 billion parameter open-source AI assistant built by squ11z1, fine-tuned on NVIDIA's Nemotron-Cascade-8B-Thinking. It focuses on quantum and classical cryptography, providing expert guidance for enterprise-level security and compliance. The model is designed to assist with post-quantum readiness and adheres to standards like NIS2, DORA, and PCI-DSS.
Key Capabilities
- Quantum-Ready Expertise: Deep knowledge of QKD protocols (BB84, E91, B92, MDI-QKD, TF-QKD) and post-quantum algorithms (ML-KEM, ML-DSA).
- Enterprise Compliance: Aids in cryptographic risk assessment, migration planning, and security testing for various regulatory frameworks.
- Cryptographic Analysis: Generates Qiskit code for quantum protocols, performs QBER analysis, simulates attacks, and reviews cryptographic protocols.
- "Thinking Mode": Utilizes chain-of-thought reasoning for complex security analyses, providing step-by-step explanations.
- Hardware Validation: Trained with real quantum experimental data from IBM Heron r2 processor, with future plans to incorporate IBM Nighthawk data.
Why Choose Kairos?
Kairos is ideal for organizations and developers needing a specialized AI for cryptographic challenges. While general benchmarks show a trade-off for its specialization (e.g., MMLU Pro at 70.2% vs. base 75.5%), it significantly outperforms base models on domain-specific tasks, achieving 92% accuracy on QKD protocol implementation and 96% on QBER security assessment. It supports various deployment options, including on-premise, private cloud, and local inference with formats like BF16, Q8_0, and Q4_K_M.