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Building the future
of open intelligence

We're a small, independent research team pushing the boundaries of language models, video generation, and multimodal AI — making powerful tools accessible to everyone.

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What's happening at SmilyAI

Stay up to date with our latest announcements, model releases, partnerships, and research updates.

Independent research,
real results.

SmilyAI is an indie AI research lab focused on building capable, efficient models without the overhead of big tech. We believe the most meaningful progress happens when small teams move fast and stay focused.

Our work spans large language models, video generation, and multimodal systems — all built with an open-first philosophy.

🔬 Research-first

Every product starts as a research question.

🌍 Open by default

We share our work with the community.

⚡ Ship fast

Small team, no bureaucracy, rapid iteration.

🎯 Focused

Quality over quantity in everything we build.

What we're building

Our active research initiatives — from production language models to next-generation multimodal systems.

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