Wisdom's shield.
An independent artificial intelligence lab focused on model well-being, safety and sustainability, building tools that put knowledge in people's hands.
Try pŷr search, free →Now free · November 2026
Our first app. Ask about anything, and Pŷr builds a lesson from real sources (Wikipedia, journal abstracts and research preprints) with every claim cited. Then you check each citation yourself. Bring your own AI model and keep everything on your phone. Lessons and searches are free, with no limit; Pŷr Pro adds classes, language lessons and a code sandbox.
About
Metis Aegis is an up-and-coming AI research lab. We study how AI systems can be made safe and well, and how that work can be done sustainably, without treating profit as the point.
We believe good values in AI are better cultivated than imposed. We think of it as a compass rather than a leash, and that idea shapes both our research and the tools we build.
Mission
In the old story, Prometheus carried fire down from the mountain so it would belong to everyone. That is our model. We don't want to be another lab that concentrates capability in a few hands. We want to spread knowledge outward, decentralized and affordable.
Wherever we can, what we make will be cheap or free. When we publish data, tools or findings, they will live here, open to anyone.
Work
A personal learning companion that turns curiosity into real understanding, one lesson at a time. Our first app, and the first spark.
pŷr search is free on the web today, on any phone or computer: answers from Wikipedia, journal abstracts and research papers, with every sentence linked to the passage it came from.
Try pŷr search →pŷr on Google Play · Search setup guide · Search privacy · Pŷr app privacy policy
The lab's public repository. Research findings, datasets and tools we release are hosted there for free, open to anyone.
A game master for solo tabletop adventures. Bring your own AI model and play Dungeon World on your own terms.
An open-weight model from the lab, built on Qwen. Details when it's ready.
Occasional notes from the lab: what we're working on, what we've learned, and what's next.