I want to start this off by saying thank you to the person i messaged that helped me realize i need to Rewrite this because initially i had written it and then used a LLM(Claude) to help word things better and fix my spelling errors which made my application look very "AI Slop" which is not how i want this project to come off

To Summarize SEVERANT
Severant is my take a new AI architecture one i believe could outperform the current world standard.
Instead of using one model like many do (Transformers) Severant aims to replicate how actual Artificial intelligence should work similiar to the brain, I plan on using Specialized Layers that all work together to make one AI that excels in all fields because its specialized in all of them.
Simply Instead of having a Predictive next word model Severant aims to actually understand the words and their meaning so whatever it says is grounded it also achieves a foundation to stand on when reasoning using one of its layers (L2)

SEVERANT is made up of 8 Layers which all do their own thing
Layer-1 Is Severants Sensory and Actuator layer it handles taking anything from the outside to severant whether it be visual, speech, text or something else
Layer-2 Is Severants World and Simulation Model it maintains a causal model of how the world works using laws in physics, science and other areas which it can then use to base its reasoning off of and simulate its hypotheses
Layer-3 This is Severants memory it holds Everything Severant Knows, Experienced or is currently thinking about using a very high granularity sorting system for knowledge it helps bring older cold memorys to warm memory or hot thinking memory
Layer-B This is the Bridge this is how Severant connects its thinking between L2 and L4 letting both layers think together and provide better results
Layer-4 This is Severants reasoning layer its responsible for language understanding and grounded composition L4 is one of the harder layers to create due to its scale of understanding needed to be genuinely good
Layer-5 This is Severants Planner it handles tasks that would take far longer than usual thinking so it is moved to L5 so that it does not use up thinking capacity allowing Severant to do multiple tasks at once

Layer-6 This is the Safety Engine of Severant or in my words the soul it holds all moral views/rules for Severant without L6 Severant would not be itself this is what gives it its personality. The list of morals is something Severant cannot go against by design and its why i believe itd make Severant safer the model isnt trained to be safe it has safety as the wrapper of the system nothing is outside of L6 and nothing can undermine due to the fact everything needs to call to it before making a decision
layer-7 This is the Self improvement layer it can edit code of any layer except for L6 it is meant to get diagnostics from the system and hold a relative scale of Severant in a sandbox like area which it can then improve it either the speed at which reasoning is done or maybe a different technique that could improve Severants inter-layer speech L7 will not exist until L6 is proven fully operational and working

The Goal for this project right now is to produce a better performing AI architecture that could allow us to achieve more with AI without hurting humanity in any way (Reducing Creativity and or intelligence)
The Ultimate goal for Severant is once its operational and can produce its own income it would be used to give opportunity to people the philosophy behind Severant is that there is too much wasted potential in the world that would not ever get to see the light of day due to the situation the individual is in
If i Succeed in making Severant and it lives up to my expectations it should be better and producing responses and should greatly decrease the chance of Hallucination Since Severant has its L3 memory and L2 and L4 foundation and grounding
Severant would be used to excel research in fields of Science, Medicine and any areas human Research is bottlenecked that Severant could help or accelerate

Now to get to why i need Funding for this
Firstly i cannot work on Severant due to the limitations of my hardware im currently running a Lenovo Haswell Desktop with no GPU so you can imagine work on this is terrible and impossible for what im trying to achieve Funding would be used to get a PC that could allow me to do implementation level work instead of the planning and design ive done so far
Secondly for me to work on Severant and dedicate enough time to it i would need funding for myself and my living expenses since i'm the only person working on Severant its needed or else progress on Severant will either stand still for time periods or be slowed down

To give some more information on myself
I am Evan, im 18 years old and i live in South Africa
My knowledge within the field is entirely self taught i spend alot of time learning via Online Courses, Youtube Videos, MIT OCW courses and alot more
as to how i learned coding it was similiar i watched Youtube videos on the language of interest and i read up on the Codes Encyclopedia
i even made my own WIP code language called SVL (Severant Variable Language) which is meant to be used in Layer-6
Ive been working on Severant since November of 2025 all that time was spent setting out the plan and design of Severant
If you would like to contact me about any questions or thoughts you have heres where you can do that
Email: severantai18@gmail.com
Discord: evangalektv

Likely causes that Severant may fail are

1. Not being able to get the proper resources that would allow me to develop it

2. if something were to happen to me there is no one else to continue the project (fingers crossed that doesnt happen)

3. If L6 cant be finished to be safe enough i would not release something that could be misused by someone with bad intent even if the system is not unsafe in its nature

During the Time ive worked on Severant ive entirely self funded it and ive tried applying to some funding sources but to no avail
one i applied to was the Foresight institute i waited about 3 months but unfortunately did not recieve it