A New Model for Intelligence.
The next era of AI won't come from a single system in the cloud, but from a civilization of models owned by the people closest to the problem.
The real cost of your cloud AI subscription isn't the API bill.
It's everything you could have built if you weren't renting intelligence.
Rented AI does the same job every month. Owned intelligence gets more valuable over time.
More on the real cost of renting intelligence:
This country was built on the freedom to make something worth owning.
We're still building on it. And building for the ones who come next.
Happy 250th, America.
Introducing The Block.
A new series about the people behind webAI. We walk Austin with a different teammate each episode, hear what they're working on, and end at their go-to spot.
Ep. 1: Rohit Jayakrishnan, ML Engineer. Coffee at Desnudo. ☕️
AI policy should not be defined only by what frontier labs, cloud platforms, and centralized model providers believe is best.
webAI has a different view: ownership, local control, distributed intelligence, practical deployment, and a focus on the people and institutions AI is
AI data centers bring environmental & security concerns.
Jason Rathje, president of public sector, @thewebAI and former director, DoD Office of Strategic Capital: Anytime you centralize power, data, and now artificial intelligence, you create an acute threat for our adversaries."
Intelligence is getting smaller.
Our CEO @Davidstout was featured in @theinformation on why the data center boom is a mistake and where AI is actually headed.
"Data centers won't disappear, but the majority of work will happen at the edge. Apple made the bet correctly there."
"Any time you centralize power, data, and now artificial intelligence, you create an acute threat for our adversaries."
Our President of Public Sector Jason Rathje was on @CNN This Morning talking about AI data centers, the strain they're putting on communities, and what a real
Full demos and write-ups for each winner coming over the next week. Stay tuned.
Big shoutout to our co-hosts HackAI, AITX, and Antler for hosting our kickoff events in Austin. Couldn't have pulled it off without them.
HUGE thanks to every builder who shipped. Already planning the next one.
Join our community to get in on the next challenge: community.webai.com#YOLOMLX
Our YOLO26 MLX Build Challenge kicked off this week.
Thanks to our co-hosts HackAI, AITX, and Antler for hosting us in Austin.
7 days. 4 tracks. $4,000 in prizes. Open to anyone in the US.
Submissions due Sunday May 24.
Full brief and how to enter: community.webai.com/t/the-yolo26-m…
Side Quest: building/testing a Swift + MLX iOS implementation for the @webai YOLO26 MLX Challenge
iPhone 16 Pro Max live test:
- Live camera tracking overlays✅
- Still-image object detection✅
- On-device inference✅
- Early physical-device validation✅
Write-up coming soon
Our first open source build challenge starts Monday.
7 days. 4 tracks. $4K in prizes. Build something with YOLO26 MLX, our open source object detection model built for Apple Silicon.
Two kickoff events in Austin:
🗓 Mon 5/18 with Hack AI (Capital Factory):
Our President of Public Sector, Jason Rathje, was on CNBC's Morning Call this morning talking about the US/China AI arms race and what it's going to take for America to stay ahead.
He made the point that distributed AI and reducing dependence on centralized cloud infrastructure
