Michael Firsov, author of gloriAI
Michael FirsovAuthor of gloriAI
About

The mind behind the mind.

I never set out to build a faster computer. I set out to build a mind: one that learns from the past to foresee the future, understands the world around it, and reads what people leave between the lines. Not to replace human perception, but to expand it, on a third of the energy.

Michael Firsov, on why he wrote gloriAI
Intelligence
Artificial and emotional, as one mind
Domains
Psychology · Philosophy · Neuroscience · Physics · Mathematics
Hardware
Brain hubs, not a conventional computer
Energy
A third of the market's, to train and to run

In plain words

Michael Firsov created gloriAI. He is a technology entrepreneur and a researcher who connects many fields. He did not want to build a faster machine. He wanted one that understands people and the world around them. GloriAI runs on its own hardware, called brain hubs, and uses about a third of the energy that similar systems use.

The author

A mind that connects fields.

Michael Firsov is a serial technology entrepreneur and a multidisciplinary researcher, with more than twenty years of executive leadership in technology. He is the founder and CEO of Hahami Connect Ltd. and of Adarix Ltd., where his work spans AI architecture, cybersecurity, research, and digital ecosystems.

His work lives where fields meet. He uses physics and mathematics as lenses on the human mind. In one essay, the gap between what we feel and what we show builds pressure like a thermodynamic system. In his research, Edward T. Hall's model of personal space gains vectors, equations, and testable predictions.

He sets the human brain beside artificial intelligence, not to choose a winner, but to learn how the two can work together. GloriAI is where those threads meet: psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, physics, and mathematics, joined in one mind.

In residence

Where the mind is already at work.

The goal

Not a faster machine. A mind that understands.

Most of the industry measures progress in speed: faster answers, larger models, more output per second. Michael Firsov set out to measure something else: how much of a person a system can actually understand.

The goal behind gloriAI is an intelligence that understands people and the world they live in: emotion, context, environment, and psychology, read with depth, precision, and trust. Not to replace human perception, but to expand it.

The measure of such a system is not how quickly it replies, but how rarely it misunderstands. Speed can be bought. Understanding has to be designed.

One system

Artificial and emotional intelligence, as one.

Emotional intelligence is usually treated as something added to a model after the fact: a tone setting, a filter, a script for empathy. In gloriAI it is part of the cognition itself.

The premise is simple. Emotion is information. A system that understands a decision must understand the person making it, and the pressure they are under, at the same time as it understands the facts.

Separating the two produces a familiar failure: an answer that is correct and still wrong for the person who receives it. GloriAI is built to avoid that failure at its root.

Domains

Five disciplines, held in one architecture.

The author refused to choose between disciplines. Human behavior does not respect the borders between them, so gloriAI does not either.

Psychology
How people decide, hesitate, and act, and the forces beneath what they say. The discipline that reads intention before it is spoken.
Philosophy
What intelligence, perception, and meaning actually are, and what they are not. The questions that come before any answer.
Neuroscience
How biological minds perceive and remember, as the reference for what an artificial one should attempt, and as a reminder of how much it has yet to learn.
Physics
How matter, motion, and energy behave. The ground beneath an intelligence that knows what a moving train, a spilled glass, or an open valve will do next.
Mathematics
The precision that keeps interpretation honest, and the structure that turns intuition into something that can be relied upon.
Brain hubs

Not a conventional computer. Brain hubs.

GloriAI does not run on a conventional computer. It runs on brain hubs: its own hardware, built to calculate data differently, just as the mind it carries thinks differently.

Hardware and mind were designed together, and the two differences compound. The result is far more power of thought, intelligence, and emotional intelligence, on a third of the energy the market spends.

Less power

Why a greater mind should consume less.

A third of the energy the market spends, to train and to run. In this work efficiency is not a line added at the end. It is evidence of design. Intelligence that needs ever more power to think is not more intelligent, only more expensive.

The question was never whether a model could be made larger. It was whether it could be made wiser with less. Every watt saved is a decision about what the mind should spend its effort on.

GloriAI is meant to prove that depth and restraint belong together.

Principles

What the author holds to.

Depth over speed

An answer that arrives quickly and misreads the person has not saved any time. Depth is the faster path in the end.

Understanding over output

Volume is easy to produce and easy to forget. The work is in reading what lies beneath a question, not in generating more words around it.

Restraint over excess

Power used without discipline is waste. A mind that respects its limits, and the limits of the earth, is the more intelligent mind. Excess is not ambition. It is a lack of design.

Publications

Writing and research.

Not to replace human perception, but to expand it.

Michael Firsov, author of gloriAI

Written to understand, not to impress.

GloriAI is the work of one conviction: that intelligence should reach the human layers within the world, and do it lightly.