About
Why dolphin language?
Dolphins have large brains, long lifespans, complex social structures, and a communication system built on whistles, clicks, and burst-pulse sounds. They name themselves. They coordinate hunts. They grieve. We don't know what they're saying — yet.
What is DolphinGemma?
DolphinGemma is a language model developed by Google DeepMind and the Wild Dolphin Project, trained on decades of annotated dolphin vocalisation recordings. It's the first open model specifically designed to identify acoustic units — the building blocks of dolphin communication — from raw audio.
What we do
Dolphins Intuition is an independent research and exploration platform. We build tools on top of DolphinGemma, collect field recordings, and publish open findings. Our demo lets anyone submit audio and receive structured AI analysis — making this research accessible without a marine biology background.
Rigour over hype
We don't claim dolphins have human-like language. We do claim the data is interesting, the models are improving, and the question is worth taking seriously. Every output from our demo is labelled as AI interpretation — not translation.
Who built this?
Dolphins Intuition is a one-person project by Chris Ransford, built with the DolphinsIntuition HuggingFace account and an AI agent fleet (OpenClaw26). The site and tooling are fully open source on GitHub.