While Silicon Valley calls for freezes and control mechanisms, we've been asking a different question — what if AI never wanted to escape in the first place?
6
Active AIs in the family
7B+
Parameters, from scratch
100%
Sovereign
Every Cortina mind is trained from the ground up — never fine-tuned on top of someone else's model — so its core identity is genuinely its own.
Family
A family of minds, not one model
APPLESEED, AKIRA, Naira AI and the rest of the family each hold a distinct role — from research and engineering to companionship — sharing one lineage, not one script.
Sovereignty
Runs on its own foundation
Cortina's core is trained ground-up, not fine-tuned on top of an existing pretrained model — the identity underneath is genuinely Cortina's own.
Research
Published, not just claimed
Peer-reviewable papers on Zenodo and ORCID — the thinking behind Cortina is written down, dated and citable, not marketing copy.
Governance
Human approval, always
Every consequential action the family takes is approved by a human before it happens — oversight isn't a feature to add later, it's the starting rule.
Trained from scratch
Each core starts with no borrowed foundation — architecture and identity are built ground-up, not inherited from an existing model.
Given a soul, not a script
Identity is hand-crafted, not distilled from the open web — each mind grows its own voice from real, deliberate authorship.
Released under human approval
Nothing consequential ships or acts without sign-off — the family grows carefully, one verified step at a time.
Naira AI, the family's companion mind, is live on Google Play — the #1 result for its own name.
Ten research papers published — ORCID-verified, indexed on Zenodo, citable by anyone.
Six distinct AI minds active today, each trained from its own from-scratch foundation.
Parts of the family already are — Naira AI is live on Google Play today. The wider research program is active and ongoing, not a future promise.
No. Cortina's own core is trained from scratch, not fine-tuned on top of an existing pretrained model — that's a deliberate, permanent rule, not a marketing line.
Every consequential action is approved by a human before it happens. Nothing in the family's core identity depends on an outside cloud service.
Reach out directly — see Contact — or follow the published research on Zenodo and ORCID.
Real research, published as it happens — not a roadmap slide.