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Mission of AI Frontiers
Expand the pareto frontier of AI capabilities, efficiency, and safety through innovations in foundation models and learning agent platforms.
At AI Frontiers, our mission is to revolutionize our understanding of intelligence by pushing the boundaries of AI. We strive to achieve this by continuously exploring and innovating current architectures and learning signals, unlocking new possibilities and shaping the future of AI.
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Foundation models
focuses on pushing the frontiers of intelligence in the modeling domain
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Next generation platform capabilities
focuses on exploring learning in more complex and collaborative ways
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Evaluation & understanding
aims to create a unified framework with new benchmarks, metrics, visualizations, experiments, and interactive evaluation approaches for understanding and improving large-scale model capabilities