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Published · transcript-backedDan Balsam: belief
8 Aug 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
“I think we we need to do a better job as a company of, like like, really, like, marketing, communicating all the different value props that can be be achieved here.”
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- 8 Aug 2026
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- The Cognitive Revolution
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…There's a lot. Yeah. There's a lot. I think we we need to do a better job as a company of, like like, really, like, marketing, communicating all the different value props that can be be achieved here. We did an internal hackathon, and we ended the internal hackathon. It was just a one day hackathon with the whole team. Lot of all day long autonomous experiments, and we ended up state of the art on multiple things. Albeit niche things. Right? Like but we produce state of the art bio risk classifiers that could be used on protein models. Totally autonomous research steered by humans and very talented humans, but long horizon autonomous research. We ended up with a state of the art, at least, like, for its parameter size audio encoding model. On the same day, we've, on multiple occasions, figured out with various models in in robotics and also in biology that we can literally just, like, remove half the parameters of the model with no performance loss. I think those are pretty cool. We've been able to train cyber guardrails on Kimi k three. We've been able to no. Let's can I can keep There's…
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