Editing Portal:Artificial Intelligence (section)

=== Navi AI and Will Braswell ===

A major Perl-community AI effort associated with '''William N. Braswell, Jr.''' is '''Navi™ AI''', also described publicly as '''ChatGPU Navi™'''.

The public Will Braswell Perl résumé page on perlcommunity.org says that Braswell leads the ChatGPU company and is personally involved with major Perl AI projects. It states that these projects combine to create the Navi™ AI system, and lists related AI and robotics projects including the AI Perl Committee, OpenAI API, Perl TensorFlow neural networks, PerlGPT Large Language Model, ChatGPU Navi™ Perl-powered AI, and ChatGPU Navi™ Robot.<ref>Perl Community Roadmap, “Will Braswell Perl Resume,” https://perlcommunity.org/will_braswell_perl_resume.html, accessed July 3, 2026.</ref>

The AI Perl Committee page describes '''ChatGPU Navi™''' under the heading “Artificial General Intelligence in Perl.” It presents Navi as a heterogeneous hybrid architecture combining the AI Perl Committee’s projects, with the stated goal of enabling AGI-style work in Perl.<ref>Perl Community Roadmap, “AI Perl Committee,” https://perlcommunity.org/ai/, accessed July 3, 2026.</ref>

Navi should be described carefully. Public Perl-community pages present it as an ambitious Perl-powered AI and robotics direction rather than as a conventional CPAN module or a universally verified production AI platform. Its significance for Perl history is that it places Perl inside an explicitly AI-forward vision: OpenAI-style APIs, TensorFlow bindings, ontology interfaces, PerlGPT, robotics, and LLM-driven programming all combined into a branded system.

Whether Navi becomes widely adopted or remains primarily a community and research initiative, it is part of the modern Perl AI story because it represents an organized attempt to argue that Perl can participate in the AI era rather than merely preserve legacy systems.