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NOVA Ankaa

What NOVA Ankaa is

Status
In development
Made in
New Zealand
Named after
Alpha Phoenicis

NOVA Ankaa is the chat AI we are building: our own model, trained on our own work and run on our own servers.

Today NOVA's products use AI models from other companies. Ankaa is how that changes. We start from a strong open model, train it further on the jobs NOVA does, and run it ourselves, so your words stay with us. It will not be the cleverest AI in the world, and we will say so plainly. It will be private, quick, and careful with facts.

The Milky Way over the snow-capped peak of Mt Ruapehu at night, with tussock in the foreground
The night sky over Mt Ruapehu, in the central North Island.

Where the name comes from

Ankaa is the brightest star in the Phoenix, the bird that rises again from its own fire. The Phoenix is a southern constellation, easy to find from New Zealand on spring evenings. Tap a star to read about it.

Ankaa

Alpha Phoenicis, magnitude 2.4

The brightest star in the Phoenix, and the one NOVA Ankaa is named after. Its name comes from the Arabic for the phoenix.

Stars of the southern Milky Way around the Southern Cross and the dark Coalsack nebula
The Southern Cross and the Coalsack. The Phoenix is in the same southern sky, with fainter stars.
The Phoenix, drawn from approximate star positions. Larger dots are brighter stars.

What we are promising

Sunrise Hut in the Ruahine Range at night, its windows lit, under the Milky Way
Sunrise Hut, Ruahine Range.
  • Our own model.

    An open model trained further by NOVA and run on NOVA's servers, not a rented one with our name on it.

  • Private by default.

    Your chats are not used to train anything unless you choose to share them.

  • Careful with facts.

    Answers that rewrite your text pass through Gnomon, which flags any number, price or date that changed.

  • Honest about limits.

    When Ankaa is not sure, it says so. When another model does a job better, we will tell you.

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when Ankaa is

One email when you can try Ankaa, and at most a short update before then. We never share your address, and you can ask us to remove it at any time. See the Privacy Policy.

The Milky Way rising above the dark outline of the Kaitake Range in Taranaki
The Milky Way above the Kaitake Range, Taranaki.