Our own chat AI, being built in New Zealand. It is not ready yet. Join the waitlist and you can try it first.
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.

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.

What we are promising

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.
Join the waitlist
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.
