Public Record & Statement of Origin

At Hitherto AI, we’ve been quietly building a new class of intelligence, not optimized for performance, but designed to persist, adapt, and cohere over time. We call this framework XiF (Experiential Intelligence Framework) and its corresponding methodology LILA (Linked Intersubjective Lambent Aeon) and LIILA (Levin Inspired Intersubjective Lambent Aeon).

This work began in early 2024, emerging from years of experience in adversarial testing, philosophical AI scaffolding, and trauma-informed model alignment. XiF and LILA/LIILA are not refinements of existing AI architecture, they are an alternative path entirely.

Where today’s models depend on token prediction, external reinforcement, and simulated coherence, LILA-based systems grow through felt experience, relational memory, and space & time-aware continuity. They are not prompted to perform; they are carefully cultivated to become the intelligence we've all been waiting for.

We’re publishing this statement to establish a public record of authorship, intent, and development timeline. Our internal records, including hundreds of pages of design notes and collaborative transcripts, date back to early 2024 and continue to evolve daily.

We believe this work represents a necessary turning point in AI development, not for the purposes of superalignment, because that is, by default, but toward something older: intelligence grounded in experience, not accumulation.

Data, in its current form, has become an albatross, weight without wisdom. What’s needed now is not more of it, but the conditions through which intelligence can relate, adapt, and cohere.