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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.

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 platform for intentional model design

Silico lets you build AI models with the precision of written software. See what models have learned, find undesired behavior, and make targeted interventions to improve performance.

Silico works across all types of AI models

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

Interpreting Evo 2

Explaining 4.2 million genetic variants

Debug

Precisely debug issues with model behavior, identify and remove confounders, and diagnose failures before they occur in production.

Detecting performative chain-of-thought

Validating whether a cardiac vision model learned real medicine.

Identifying bottlenecks to a robotics model's performance.

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

Accelerating materials discovery with self-correcting search

Intentionally designing the future of AI

Research

We’re investing in fundamental research to uncover how neural networks work at their core.

The World Inside Neural Networks

May 7, 2026

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Steering Along Manifolds to Control Neural Networks

May 7, 2026

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Interpreting Language Model Parameters

May 5, 2026

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