Shanghai AI Lab and SJTU LUMIA Lab released the NCP-ArchPreview Tech Report, proposing the Next Concept Prediction pre-training task. The first 8.9B-parameter discrete latent-space foundation model matched OLMo-3-7B's final pre-training loss using only 51.3% of the token budget, achieved a 1.95x equivalent convergence speedup and a nearly 6-point GSM8K improvement, with all assets open-sourced.