ʻŌlelo (Hawaiian: language, speech, expression) is a custom large language model developed by the AIEA Lab to support research, teaching, and experimentation in explainable and neurosymbolic AI.
The goal of ʻŌlelo is not just to generate a custom LLM for the AIEA lab to support structured reasoning, transparency, and responsible use of language models in large-group, academic settings.
In ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, ʻōlelo refers to language, speech, and meaningful expression.
The name reflects our view of language models as systems that express knowledge, rather than opaque black boxes that merely predict tokens.
ʻŌlelo is designed to:
- Listen to meetings and produce meeting notes
- Be a custom tutor and helper for the lab (discord bot)
- Create workflows (automatically create Notion meeting notes, etc.)
Eventually, the project will:
- Support research workflows in explainable AI (XAI) and neurosymbolic methods
- Serve as a teaching and mentoring aid for students
- Enable controlled experimentation with reasoning, evaluation, and grounding
- Provide a platform for studying what models know, don’t know, and how they explain it
This project is intended primarily for internal AIEA lab and academic use.