About

Ely - AI institute is a beautiful software engineering setting to study, or crank out code.  It's located 7 miles from Canada remotely outside Ely, Minnesota - 38 acres on two lakes, thousands of 90 ft tall birch trees, and outstanding fishing/hunting.  

The "institute" is unabashedly Christ-first, conservative, and pro-MAGA.  We build conservative networks to strengthen Christian small town America.  Think the "Hillsdale College" of software, with the refreshing candor of Charlie Kirk.

We focus on the following stack - Mac/Linux, AWS, Python, React, Node, Homebrew, Vim/Bash/Zsh, Java/Typescript, Twilio, Cursor, ... and of course all six major AI foundry toolsets (superGrok, Claude Code, Google Gemini/Studio, VEO, Nano-Banana, OpenAI Codex, Canvas, and the open source standouts (Gwen, Deepseek, Llama, Hugging Face).

In all that we do, we honor Christ, and the word of the Bible.

Professor Levinson (founder) is one of the earliest software engineers on Earth - hanging around Bell Labs as a 12-yr old whiz kid.  Born in a 100+ years Christian family, he speaks Japanese and Chinese, reading the newspaper fluently in both, having lived in Tokyo for five years, and Beijing for two years.  Strongly pro-America.  Blessed with an extraordinary mathematics acumen, advanced physics, and a graduate degree from Harvard.   Beijing University, UC Berkeley, Middlebury, Butler, Princeton.