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Reverse engineering intelligence with interpretability.

We're building aq, a development environment & framework to help build safer and better ML by reverse engineering and interpreting foundation models across physics, life sciences, industrial, scientific discovery, clinical, and safety-critical.

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Emergent Ventures
Founders Inc
The Residency
NVIDIA Inception
Emergent Ventures
Founders Inc
The Residency
NVIDIA Inception
LAION

Building an interpretable VLM that maps text and vision towers on top of OpenCLIP.

KAIST

Using interpretability tooling for preference detection analysis in LLMs.

AEIA Lab

Training SAEs on a LLM to sense conflict, ambiguity, and tone, and choose the right response.

Zyogen

Building interpretable medical vision transformers and diffusion models.

What labs build with aq

Training a ViT on wound recovery imaging, then interpreting it to distill a prediction system.

Finding features that drive recovery signals, then building and distilling leaner predictor to be able to inspect.

Mapping correlations between the human brain and LLM neural nets.

Building a testbed for drugs and cures aimed at Alzheimer's, dementia, and schizophrenia.

Finding deceptive features for AI safety.

Locating and studying deceptive features before they become failure modes for AI safety.

Finding if models have mechanistic representation of their context exhaustion.

What happens inside when a model knows the window is ending, when it knows it is about to die.

Interpreting and quantizing world models.

Reading how a model represents the world, then compressing that structure so it stays inspectable and usable.

What researchers are solving with aq

IDE for Machine Learning

A workspace for training and reading models on a GPU you control, with the same precision as writing code. Load an LLM or embedding model, then inspect, simulate, compare checkpoints, and eval as the run unfolds.

Inspect pythia-70m layer 12 residual. Plot attention with viridis, origin lower.
Used 2 toolsinspect_residualplt.imshow

Layer 12 residual

Loaded pythia-70m and pulled the residual at layer 12. The map is viridis, origin lower.

  • Head 3 and 7 are the bright sinks.
plt.imshow · viridis · origin=lower
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llama 3.2 1bterminal 112%
ashm@Ashs-MacBook-Air nns %
$ aqit load pythia-70m
loading weights … ok
device  mps  layers=12  d_model=512

$ aqit inspect --layer 12
residual  [seq=48, 512]
F4412  0.84  european capitals
F118   0.61  proper nouns
F902   0.44  country names

$ python scripts/plot_attn.py
imshow  cmap=viridis  origin=lower
wrote figs/attn_l12.png

ashm@Ashs-MacBook-Air nns % 

build models with same precision and intent as writing code.

build transformers & llms

simulate lora

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