AI that creates,
connects, and
understands.
We build generative tools with care, and study the cognition systems they will someday rest on — from a consumer creative platform to foundational work on probabilistic world models.
From the things people send to the systems that perceive.
Each lives somewhere on the arc from generative craft to probabilistic cognition. Together they describe where we think the field is going.
Adventures in Etiquette
AI greeting cards with personality.
Generative images and voice messages, voiced by a cast of companion characters. A consumer creative platform.
Mosaic
A chatbot that sees, speaks, and shows.
A multimodal companion — many modalities, one picture.
Cogitator
A general framework for scene cognition.
A probabilistic world model that maintains graded beliefs under constitutional governance.
Generative AI is the front door. Cognition is the house.
The generative wave gave us systems that produce remarkable artifacts — images, voices, prose. What it has not yet given us is systems that understand what they are producing, who they are producing it for, or what is true about the world they are producing it in.
Midvale works on both halves. Our product work explores what generative models can do today, when paired with care and craft. Our research explores what comes next: agents that maintain calibrated, revisable beliefs about latent causes rather than treating detections as truth.
Cogitator believes, rather than detects.
A probabilistic world model that maintains graded beliefs about entities, relations, and intent — and revises them as evidence arrives.
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