conw.ai
Independent local AI platform and developer API
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What is conw.ai?
Conw is a locally-served AI chat platform that learns from user interactions through a guarded feedback loop. It runs Conway-Retrain 12B (a Gemma 4-based model) on its own hardware using MLX inference, prioritizing privacy and transparency while avoiding the opacity typical of external API-dependent systems.
conw.ai pricing
Pricing model: Freemium
Platform API: £1.50 per 1,000,000 tokens (input + output combined); minimum £5.00 top-up; free chat product with no card required
conw.ai pros
- Local inference on own hardware (16GB iMac) — no external API forwarding, greater privacy and transparency
- Immediate learning from user corrections and ratings through private memory system
- Guarded learning loop with safety checks before any model weight updates are promoted to live
- Available as OpenAI-compatible platform API (£1.50 per 1M tokens) for integration into other applications
- Highly efficient — single machine serving with bounded token output and deferred background learning
conw.ai cons
- Compact model that will lose to frontier systems on breadth and trivia (acknowledged limitation)
- Capacity limited to single 16GB iMac — not designed for high-scale enterprise use
- Token ceilings and response budgets enforce short-answer behavior (by design, but may limit complex queries)
- Minimum £5.00 top-up required for API access — higher friction for very small users
Frequently asked questions about conw.ai
Does Conw really learn from my chats?
Yes, but selectively. Confirmed teaching enters private memory immediately; only safe, useful, and verified lessons become shared vocabulary. Sensitive or badly-formatted lessons stay filtered out.
How smart is it compared to other AI models?
As a compact, locally-served model, frontier systems will beat it on breadth and trivia. Its advantage is the feedback loop—confirmed teaching works immediately, and verified updates can improve the model where people actually use it.
Is Conw actually environmentally friendly?
It runs on one 16GB iMac with output caps and pauses background learning when serving is needed, but Conw does not publish carbon claims without proper metering.
Is Conw a wrapper around another company's model?
No. Conw does not forward queries to an external API. It serves Conway-Retrain 12B directly, retrained on a Gemma 4 base.