Everything you need to build AI for animals
Open Paws builds in the open, and the pieces fit together: datasets feed the models, the models power the tools, and the workflows tie them into everyday advocacy work. Everything here is production-ready, tested in live campaigns, and freely available to use, remix, or build upon.
Heads up · The knowledge base has moved
The knowledge base now runs on our own servers
We've moved the knowledge base from Weaviate Cloud to our own self-hosted Weaviate at knowledge-base.openpaws.ai. It's the same database version and the same Content collection with all 240,055 entries. nearText, hybrid and keyword search, filters, aggregations and RAG all work as before.
What you need to change: swap connect_to_weaviate_cloud(...) for connect_to_custom(...) with the new address and read-only key below.
New: OpenRouter support. Besides your own OpenAI key, you can send an X-OpenRouter-Api-Key header, so RAG answers can come from any OpenRouter model (Claude, Llama, Mistral and more).
client = weaviate.connect_to_custom(
http_host="knowledge-base.openpaws.ai", http_port=443, http_secure=True,
grpc_host="tokaido.proxy.rlwy.net", grpc_port=21676, grpc_secure=False,
auth_credentials=Auth.api_key("openpaws-kb-readonly-JT_r0liyN5_bWlbQ"),
headers={"X-OpenAI-Api-Key": "..."}, # or {"X-OpenRouter-Api-Key": "..."}
)What we share
n8n
n8n workflow automations
We provide a full suite of n8n automation workflows that streamline advocacy operations.
GitHub
Specialized generative AI
Open Paws has developed domain-specific language models fine-tuned for animal advocacy, reasoning, and ethical alignment.
GitHub
Knowledge infrastructure
We've built a powerful vector-graph database designed to connect and surface knowledge across the animal advocacy space.
GitHub
Prediction models
Our powerful text regression models predict advocacy performance, preference alignment, and message impact using real-world data.
Hugging Face
Datasets
We maintain a growing collection of Hugging Face-hosted datasets to power model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
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