Nat Lambert co-founds Trillium Labs, a nonprofit for open frontier AI science
natolambert · x · 2026-10-03
Nathan Lambert and Tom Zick launched Trillium Labs, a nonprofit dedicated to open science of frontier AI, with initial backing from Halcyon Futures and Schmidt Sciences.
- Building open post-training recipes, expanding into open infra to study RSI, reward-hacking, and multi-agent systems.
- Theory of change: hard technical problems need more eyes; AI is becoming too closed to benefit from the scientific community.
- Advisors include Thom Wolf, Hanna Hajishirzi, and Graham Neubig. Offices in the Bay Area and Cambridge MA; hiring full-time staff and student collaborators, fundraising, and seeking compute.
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