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Metanthropic.
An independent research lab parsing the thermodynamics of intelligence.
The Event Horizon
By late 2025, the silence in the room was deafening. We were watching loss curves plummet and capabilities skyrocket, yet our understanding of why it worked remained stagnant. We were building gods in black boxes, hoping they would be benevolent.
That uncertainty kept me up at night. I realized that the "Alignment Problem" wasn't an engineering bug to be patched with more RLHF. It was a fundamental crisis of physics.
"To trust a mind, you must be able to read its thoughts."
A Cathedral, Not a Factory
We chose to operate differently. In an industry obsessed with speed, we chose depth. We aren't racing to train the largest model; we are racing to understand the smallest circuit.
This philosophy drove us to move beyond the probabilistic guessing games of standard transformers. We started asking dangerous questions: Can we mathematically prove a model is safe before it speaks its first word?
This is why we focus on Mechanistic Interpretability. Just as biologists mapped the human genome to cure disease, we are mapping the "connectome" of AI to cure deception.
The Charter
Before we wrote a single line of CUDA, we wrote our Charter. It is our constitution. It binds us to a simple promise: if we ever feel our work endangers humanity, we stop.
Distributed Benefits
We serve humanity, not shareholders. We avoid concentrating power.
Stop Button
If a competitor is safer, we stop competing and help them.
Technical Edge
Policy without code is noise. We lead by building.
Open Safety
Safety is not a moat. We publish our interpretability research.
Our Contributions
We publish our findings openly. Our work on Dataset Distillation and Sub-Quadratic Attention is not a trade secret; it is a contribution to the species.