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 mention — and scientists increasingly route their most sensitive questions through them too. This opens a new five-part LIWARSE series looking at the AI model landscapeContinue reading “Beyond the Big Five: The Other General-Purpose AI Assistants the Public Already Uses”
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Alibaba Under the LIWARSE Lens: Qwen3.7-Max and the Qwen 3.6 Family
Alibaba’s Qwen line has quietly become one of the world’s most capable open-weight families — while its newest flagship, Qwen3.7-Max, closed the door behind it. LIWARSE closes this five-part series with the one non-Western provider whose split matters most for global AI governance.
xAI Under the LIWARSE Lens: Grok 4.5 and the Open Grok Weights
xAI ships a fast-moving closed flagship, Grok 4.5, alongside open weights it releases roughly a generation behind — and a coding agent it open-sourced after a privacy incident. LIWARSE reviews both, and the incident that shaped them.
Meta Under the LIWARSE Lens: Muse Spark and the Llama 4 Family
Meta built its entire AI identity on open weights, then quietly shipped its first-ever closed, proprietary flagship. LIWARSE reads the reversal — and what it means for the open Llama 4 models left behind — through the 3 Absolute Laws.
Google Under the LIWARSE Lens: Gemini 3.1 Pro and the Gemma 4 Family
Google runs the widest split of any major lab: a closed Gemini flagship for scale and multimodality, and a Gemma family so open it reaches from data centers down to a Raspberry Pi — including a medical-domain variant. LIWARSE reviews both.
OpenAI Under the LIWARSE Lens: GPT-5.6 Sol and the gpt-oss Family
OpenAI ships two very different kinds of intelligence: GPT-5.6 Sol, a closed frontier flagship, and the gpt-oss family, open weights anyone can download and run. LIWARSE examines both through the lens of the 3 Absolute Laws and the guarded-versus-unguarded standard.
The Intelligence That Lives With You: Bringing AGI Safety to the Personal AI on Your Devices
As reasoning-capable AI moves from distant servers onto the phone in your pocket, the safety question changes shape. LIWARSE applies the 3 Absolute Laws and its containment model to the personal AI now living inside your own devices, and proposes five safeguards for keeping it that way.
Open Source AI Without Guardrails: The Hazard
An open model with no embedded safeguards cannot be recalled, patched, or shut off once it leaves the lab. LIWARSE argues the real fault line is not open versus closed — it is guarded versus unguarded. A five-point framework for keeping AI open to people without leaving it open to harm.
Negative Intelligence: The Essential Safety Compass Every AI System Must Carry
LIWARSE introduces Negative Intelligence — a structured, living safety reference framework of harmful actions, patterns, and outcomes that AI systems must recognize and avoid. Includes 40+ reference points across 7 critical domains for AI engineers, safety professionals, and policymakers.
The HyperMind: How Combined Human-AI Intelligence Can Surpass IQ 300 — and What It Means for Life on Earth
When human intelligence and AI are genuinely integrated, the result is not additive — it is multiplicative. LIWARSE explores how combined IQ can exceed 300, why your AI must belong to you alone, and what human sovereignty over cognition means for the future of life on Earth.
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