# Externalized Model Knowledge **Entity class:** Model-architecture concept **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Knowledge systems **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Externalized model knowledge stores facts, documents, memories, or state outside a model's parameters and retrieves them when needed. ## Mechanism and significance Externalization can improve updateability and provenance while introducing retrieval, latency, trust, and integration problems that parameterized knowledge handles differently. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Model Architecture and Compute Economics|Model Architecture and Compute Economics]] - **Primary fields:** [[Machine Intelligence]] · [[AI Infrastructure]] · [[Compute Race]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Algorithmic Improvement Without Data Scaling]] · [[Compact Reasoning Kernel]] · [[Knowledge Embedded in Model Weights]] · [[Terminal-Bench]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.