About Originis
Of the origin.
A quantitative technology company — and a quant research lab, measured from a single point of origin.
IThe name
Originis is Latin, the genitive of origo: “of the origin, of the source”.
Origo comes from the verb oriri, to rise. In Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish, origo still names the origin of a coordinate system — the point (0, 0) every measurement starts from.
Read as one phrase, originis.ai says “origin is AI”.
IIThe mark
A ring, and a violet dot exactly where the tail of a Q would be.
O and the dot make Q — the first letter of quant. The dot is the origin. In the wordmark only is is violet, so the name reads “origin is AI” and is never mistaken for “origins”.
IIIThe line
Unending, unborn, all things abide at the ORIGIN.
Translated from the founder's own line in Vietnamese: nothing ceases, nothing arises, everything is original. “Neither arising nor ceasing” is a phrase of the Heart Sutra; abide carries the Buddhist sense of dwelling.
ORIGIN is three things at once: the original nature of things, the coordinate origin (0, 0), and the root of the name Originis.
IVThe team
A small group of researchers and engineers, working from the same origin.
Team profiles will be published here.