Latest from LIWARSE

Recent position papers and articles from the movement.

• The AI Models Learning to Move: Robotics Foundation Models and the Vision-Language-Action EraAugust 12, 2026
  Every model in this series so far lives on a screen. This one is starting to walk around. This is the fifth and final article in LIWARSE’s series on theContinue reading “The AI Models Learning to Move: Robotics Foundation Models and the Vision-Language-Action Era”
• Clinical AI in 2026: Med-Gemini, Meditron-3, and the Gap Between Regulated and AccurateAugust 12, 2026
  A Nature Medicine benchmark published in June 2026 found that general-purpose chatbots — not FDA-cleared clinical AI — gave the more accurate answers to real physician questions. For a movementContinue reading “Clinical AI in 2026: Med-Gemini, Meditron-3, and the Gap Between Regulated and Accurate”
• The AI Models Doing Science No One Talks About: AlphaFold, ESM, and the Discovery EnginesAugust 12, 2026
  No chatbot discovered 2.2 million new crystal structures or folded a billion proteins. A different family of AI models did that — quietly, without a subscription plan or a pressContinue reading “The AI Models Doing Science No One Talks About: AlphaFold, ESM, and the Discovery Engines”
• The Open-Weight Models You Can Actually Run Yourself: DeepSeek, Mistral, and the Self-Hosting OptionAugust 12, 2026
  Somewhere between a hospital that can’t send patient data to an outside API and a hobbyist who just wants to see how a model thinks, there is a growing categoryContinue reading “The Open-Weight Models You Can Actually Run Yourself: DeepSeek, Mistral, and the Self-Hosting Option”
• Beyond the Big Five: The Other General-Purpose AI Assistants the Public Already UsesAugust 12, 2026
  The five providers LIWARSE has already profiled are not the whole field. Millions of people reach for a general-purpose AI assistant every day through products those five profiles never mentionContinue reading “Beyond the Big Five: The Other General-Purpose AI Assistants the Public Already Uses”
• Guardians of the Wild: How AI and Robotics Can Preserve Nature and Ease Human-Wildlife ConflictAugust 11, 2026
  Wildlife populations have collapsed by the majority since the 1970s, and shrinking habitats are pushing people and animals into deadly contact more often. LIWARSE looks at how AI-powered monitoring and robotics can protect what’s left — without turning conservation into surveillance over the communities who share these landscapes.