Onix Launches Tiny Labs for Expert-Powered AI Models

MONTREAL, Sept. 28, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- Onix, the Montreal-based company pioneering Personal Intelligence®, an approach to AI built on the licensed knowledge of individual, named experts instead of scraped internet data, has today announced the launch of Onix Tiny Labs, a dedicated research and development group. Tiny Labs was created to conduct foundational research into small language models designed around individual experts to preserve their knowledge, judgment, and voice.

The company has already developed personalized AI experiences with more than 30 health and wellness experts, pushing the limits of off-the-shelf small models. Tiny Labs will now focus on developing a new class of highly customizable small models designed from the ground up around an individual's knowledge, judgment, and voice.

As the world's largest AI companies race to introduce personalization and creator tools, Onix is investing in a different approach by challenging the common wisdom that bigger is always better. Tiny Labs will research new model architectures, training methods, and evaluations designed specifically to preserve the expert's authenticity.

The company's experts retain ownership and control over how their knowledge is used and receive 70% of the revenue associated with their models. By pairing that economic model with the work of Tiny Labs, Onix aims to give experts a way to scale their knowledge without giving up control of what makes it uniquely theirs.

Onix Tiny Labs will advance Onix's approach to privacy and expert ownership, building within Canada's strong privacy framework with the goal of creating models that remain distinctly tied to the people whose expertise powers them. These models are small enough to run privately on a user's phone, without relying on a remote server or centralized data center.

Onix has built AI models with experts across health and wellness, including William Li, MD; Jordan Metzl, MD; Dave Rabin, MD, PhD; Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, MD; Elissa Epel, PhD; and Ashley Koff, RD. Their expertise spans medicine, nutrition, mental health, longevity, and other areas of health and wellness, forming the foundation of Onix's growing expert ecosystem.

Onix is currently available in early access on iOS. Full commercial availability is coming shortly, with Android to follow.

Onix is the world's first Personal Intelligence® solution, a private, expert-driven AI built from the minds you'd most want in your corner to solve life's hardest problems. Participants get guidance from the experts they trust, anytime, anywhere, with personal, private advice. Onix gives experts a way to license their knowledge intentionally and maintain governance over how their intelligence systems operate, while scaling their work to help more people without surrendering their IP to centralized AI platforms.