Kommuneforlaget AS and the University of Agder are making Norwegian-developed Tsetlin technology available as free software for explainable and secure AI in the public sector. The effort is positioned as a national tool for safe and comprehensible AI solutions rather than a direct rival to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, with a focus on showing why decisions are made.
The Tsetlin machine was developed by UiA professor Ole-Christoffer Granmo and first launched in 2018. It is a machine learning algorithm based on logic and Tsetlin automata, designed to learn patterns through rules and explain its outputs, unlike traditional deep learning systems often described as black boxes. UiA describes the technology as energy-efficient, competitive across classification, text comprehension and speech tasks, and part of the permanent exhibition at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.
UiA’s Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research is collaborating with Kommuneforlaget on KF Fuzzy Tsetlin and KF Graph Tsetlin. The components are intended to lower the barrier from research to testing by making the methods easier to use in Langflow, a free web-based environment for building AI workflows without writing code from scratch.
