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8 Aug 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
“We're we're we're a start up where we are still figuring out a lot the details as we go, but I think we're gonna be pretty generous here and give a lot of folks who we think are doing important work, especially in in those impactful domains, extended access.”
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- 8 Aug 2026
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…It's a great candidate to shake the snow globe of all sorts of different things. Is there a program or some sort of offer for some sort of way for the researcher who's interested in the public good to get their hands on Silico without paying the full rate? Well, so for the first two months, we're half off for everybody, but we also are doing a research grant program that people can apply to. And for researchers, particularly in life sciences and and in AI safety, we'll give them grants. So we'll give them, like, extended access for at least some period of time. We're we're we're a start up where we are still figuring out a lot the details as we go, but I think we're gonna be pretty generous here and give a lot of folks who we think are doing important work, especially in in those impactful domains, extended access. What's kind of the lunch conversation topic du jour at Goodfire these days? What what's kind of the the thing that's on people's minds that hasn't maybe percolated out to the broader discourse? Well, we publish pretty much…
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