About
Benedict Patrick
AI engineer and researcher from Chennai, India. I design new model architectures, train my own models, and build the engines, chips and products around them.
I’m Benedict Patrick, Ben for short, and I go by bencodes online. I work across the whole AI stack: new architectures, training, inference engines, hardware and the products people actually use.
Core-1 is my ternary weight state space language model, built to run on ordinary CPUs. Cipheron is a small model I trained for secure code review, released on Hugging Face. Quanta Engine is an LLM inference engine I wrote from scratch in C++, and AT1 is an architecture study for a phone AI chip that computes beside its memory banks.
I also ship tools: securevibe and smartgrep are on npm, Navo runs a chat model inside a browser tab on WebGPU, and PyPhone Studio puts a real Python interpreter on your phone. I take on client work too, from custom models to full products.
- Name
- Benedict Patrick
- Also known as
- Ben, bencodes
- Based in
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Role
- AI engineer and researcher
- Works on
- Model architectures, training, inference engines, AI hardware, edge AI, developer tools
- Models
- Core-1, Cipheron, Spark, Relay
- Shipped
- securevibe, smartgrep, Navo, PyPhone Studio
- Research
- AT1, OpenContext, OpenReason, PARQ
What I work on
New architectures
Ternary weights, state space backbones and hybrid attention, designed for cheap hardware.
Core-1, Phobos
Training my own models
Fine tuning and training small, specialised models from data to release.
Cipheron, Spark, Relay
Inference engines
Engines written from scratch, quantization and constrained decoding.
Quanta Engine
AI hardware
Chip architecture, Verilog RTL and simulation, built around memory.
AT1
Agents and memory
Context paging for LLMs and sandboxes where coding agents prove their work.
OpenContext, OpenReason
Products and tools
Installable tools and live apps, plus work built for clients.
securevibe, smartgrep, Navo, PyPhone Studio
Questions
Who is Benedict Patrick?
Benedict Patrick, also known as Ben or bencodes, is an AI engineer and researcher from Chennai, India. He designs new model architectures, trains his own models and builds the engines, chips and products around them.
What has Benedict Patrick built?
Core-1, a ternary weight state space language model; Cipheron, a secure code review model on Hugging Face; Quanta Engine, an LLM inference engine written from scratch in C++; AT1, a phone AI chip architecture; and the tools securevibe, smartgrep, Navo and PyPhone Studio.
Where is Benedict Patrick based?
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He works with clients anywhere, remotely.
How can I hire or contact Benedict Patrick?
Send a project brief at bencodes.space/start, or email benedictpatrickjohn@gmail.com. He replies within two days.