Goodfire AI - Interpretability Research Company
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Goodfire AI is a research company focused on mechanistic interpretability to understand and design safer AI systems, backed by major investors and staffed by researchers from leading AI labs and universities.
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Goodfire is an AI safety research company using interpretability techniques to understand neural network internals, design custom AI models, and generate scientific insights from AI systems. Their work spans fundamental interpretability research, applied model design, and real-world applications such as Alzheimer's biomarker discovery and hallucination reduction.
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- •Uses mechanistic interpretability to translate internal AI reasoning into human-understandable insights and novel scientific discoveries.
- •Applies interpretability to intentionally design custom AI models aligned to specific objectives rather than relying solely on scaling.
- •Published research includes using interpretability to reduce hallucinations and discover rare undesired model behaviors.
- •Team includes researchers from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, and leading academic institutions who helped found modern AI interpretability.
- •Backed by over $200M from major investors, signaling significant commercial and research momentum in the interpretability space.
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Understand and debug your AI model
There is remarkable mathematical structure and geometry within neural networks. We help you uncover the hidden representations inside your model to remove the guesswork from AI training - going from alchemy to precision engineering.
Request access View latest research We've helped design AI for Our Mission Understand the scientific foundations of neural networks so that we can intentionally design AI We believe that AI is the most consequential technology of our time, yet today we train models with remarkably little understanding of the nature of their intelligence.
We’re the research lab dedicated to creating the science and technology to change that.
The Intentional Design Agenda Novel methods to understand ,
debug , and design your AI model
Understand
Reverse engineer the causal mechanisms of AI to reveal its internal structure, uncovering novel science and validating when predictions reflect true understanding.
Discovering a novel class of Alzheimer's biomarkers We identified a novel class of biomarkers for Alzheimer's detection by interpreting a epigenetic model, the first major finding in the natural sciences obtained from reverse-engineering a foundation model.
Read more → Interpreting Evo 2 We decoded the internal representations of Arc Institute's Evo 2 genomic model, finding features that map onto biological concepts from coding sequences to protein secondary structure. Published in Nature.
Read more → Explaining 4.2 million genetic variants We used Evo 2 embeddings to predict whether and how genetic variants cause disease, achieving state-of-the-art performance and interpretable-by-design predictions.
Read more → Debug
Precisely debug issues with model behavior, identify and remove confounders, and diagnose failures before they occur in production.
Detecting performative chain-of-thought We tracked “performative chain-of-thought”: when models “know” their final answer but continue to generate chain-of-thought anyways. We showed that probes can enable early exit from reasoning traces, saving up to 68% of tokens with minimal accuracy loss.
Read more → Correcting brittle shortcuts in a cardiac vision model We dissected the latent space of a cardiac vision model to surface training pathologies and pinpoint where clinically meaningful structure emerges across depth and time.
Identifying bottlenecks to a robotics model's performance We worked with a robotics team to identify information bottlenecks. By inspecting latent policy structure and representational geometry directly, we traced unstable behaviors to brittle internal features.
Design
Control training precisely to ensure your model learns what you want with less data and fewer off-target effects.
Reducing hallucinations with features as rewards We cut hallucinations in an LLM by 58% by using interpretability to guide model training. Our approach was ~90x lower cost per intervention than LLM-
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