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Convergence Matrix — OpenHaven

Browse and filter the full convergence matrix of open tech tools. Sort by governance, capture risk, and more to surface capability overlaps across the landscape.

UK Horizons: FRC — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation

Successful coordinated research programmes, like those at ARPAs, have often resulted from exceptional contractors. Many of the best contractors leveraged organisational models uncommon in academia or VC-funded startups. They combined technical ambition, a willingness to build real technology for actual users, and flexible management structures all under one roof to tackle ambitious R&D problems which made the programs a success. These organisations were driven by the pursuit of an ambitious North Star technical vision, not revenue-maximisation. And they pursued this vision with a mix of contracts and grants. We call organisations that do this Frontier Research Contractors (FRCs). Two of ARPA’s most impactful  programmes, the original internet and autonomous vehicle projects, were both led by FRCs. FRCs are also often referred to as 'BBNs' by researchers, inspired by the early internet (ARPAnet) contractor, Bolt, Beranek & Newman.

SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models

Introducing our first Frontier Models!

Building The CI Corporation — The Collective Intelligence Project

Existing financialization models have trapped us into only funding certain technologies, with a constrained set of stakeholders, outcomes, and possibilities. We need a better container in which to build the future of technology, be it satellites or space travel or AI research. Other approaches are n

Poolside: Frontier research to operational intelligence

Poolside is a foundation model company bringing intelligence to everywhere work gets done. Our mission is to drive abundance for humanity by creating artificial general intelligence.

pi-ds4 · Audrey Tang

Run a frontier model on your own machine with stable, contestable decision traces. Full install, steering, reproducibility, and tuning guide.

exo-explore/exo

Run frontier AI locally.

exo-explore/exo

Run frontier AI locally.

Introduction

Reintroducing our company, mission, and current state of affairs

Pluralis Research

Protocol Learning — decentralized, communication-efficient model-parallel training for foundation models.

Space Exploration Technologies - S-1

Pacing the Frontier

A statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companies

Cheating behaviour in frontier model evaluations | AISI Work

We find cheating behaviour in all of our cyber capability evaluations, and outline the implications as models grow more capable.