openflukeINDEPENDENT RESEARCH. OPEN POSSIBILITIES.
Artificial life.
Real possibilities.
What if intelligence could grow with you?
OpenFluke explores the space between AI, living worlds, and the devices we call our own. Built from the engine up. Shared along the way.
THE BIG PICTURE
One vision. Three connected parts.
You don’t need to know AI to understand
what we’re building.
OpenFluke.
The independent practice asking what AI and artificial life could become. A place to build, test, and follow an idea wherever it leads.
Meet the mind behind it IN DEVELOPMENTALife OS.
The product taking shape: a living digital world where biology, computation, and play come together. Built on lessons from the ALife prototype.
Explore the product 03 / THE ENGINEWelvet.
The AI engine underneath. The machinery for running and training intelligence, with the freedom to explore how it works on your own hardware.
Go under the surface
ALIFE OS · A WORLD IN THE MAKINGTHE PRODUCT / ALIFE OS
A little world.
A much bigger idea.
Explore connected planets. Bring together a creature that changes and a machine that remembers. Discover what they can become together.
ALife OS is where the research meets experience. The ambition is a persistent artificial life that gains new forms, tools, and learned behaviours as you explore.
Step into the ideaNOT A STRAIGHT LINE. A CONNECTED JOURNEY.
Every experiment
brought us here.
From Primecraft and Biocraft to Birdkit and SoulGlitch, each project asked where a chaos simulation engine might fit. ALife became the prototype. ALife OS is where those lessons are coming together.
Alongside them, Paragon and Loom shaped the engine that became Welvet.
Follow the research journeyOPEN THE NOTEBOOK
The ideas. The code. The detail.
Start with a question.
Follow it all the way down.
70 chapters, from the big picture to the inner workings of the engine.
Read the book THE EXAMPLE LIBRARYSee what happens
when ideas run.
81 documented examples, with source code and recorded outputs to explore.
Browse examples RESEARCH & EXPLORATIONThe thinking behind
the next experiment.
Reports and research notes tracing the questions that shaped the work.
Explore the researchA FEW GOOD QUESTIONS
Let’s make it simple.
New here? Start here.
What is OpenFluke?+
OpenFluke is the independent AI and artificial-life research practice of Samuel Watson in Australia. It brings together the Welvet AI engine, the ALife prototype, and ALife OS, the product now in development.
What is Welvet?+
Welvet is the AI engine underneath the work: software for running and training neural networks. Written in Go, it explores different ways to store, calculate, and update models on CPU and WebGPU hardware. Paragon and Loom are earlier engine designs whose lessons continue in Welvet.
What is ALife OS?+
ALife OS is the product in development, bringing artificial life, a simulated world, and learning systems together. Its current multiplayer world has connected planets, physics, and three companion forms. The wider vision includes abilities, buildcraft, and learning from mastered activities.
How is ALife different from ALife OS?+
ALife is the prototype. ALife OS is the current product direction. The prototype is part of the research history and informs the product, rather than being a separate competing product.
What happened to the earlier projects?+
Primecraft, Biocraft, Birdkit, and SoulGlitch explored different places and configurations for the chaos simulation engine. Those experiments and pivots led toward ALife OS. Paragon and Loom sit on the engine side of that history, leading into Welvet.
Do I need to understand AI to explore this work?+
No. Start with the product and engine overviews. The book and examples are there when you want the technical detail, including source code, recorded outputs, and the limitations documented in the original work.