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Goodfire AI is a research company focused on mechanistic interpretability to understand and design safer AI systems, backed by major investors and staffed by researchers from leading AI labs and universities.

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Goodfire is an AI safety research company using interpretability techniques to understand neural network internals, design custom AI models, and generate scientific insights from AI systems. Their work spans fundamental interpretability research, applied model design, and real-world applications such as Alzheimer's biomarker discovery and hallucination reduction.

Key Points

  • Uses mechanistic interpretability to translate internal AI reasoning into human-understandable insights and novel scientific discoveries.
  • Applies interpretability to intentionally design custom AI models aligned to specific objectives rather than relying solely on scaling.
  • Published research includes using interpretability to reduce hallucinations and discover rare undesired model behaviors.
  • Team includes researchers from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, and leading academic institutions who helped found modern AI interpretability.
  • Backed by over $200M from major investors, signaling significant commercial and research momentum in the interpretability space.

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Goodfire AI 
 Backed by over $200M from B Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed, and other leading investors intelligence

 Goodfire is a research company using interpretability to understand, learn from, and design AI systems. Our mission is to build the next generation of safe and powerful AI—not by scaling alone, but by understanding the intelligence we're building.

 Building with AI? Contact us for a demo 
 
 We've helped design AI for What we do

 01 Discover new science

 We generate novel scientific knowledge by translating the internal reasoning of superhuman AI systems into human-understandable insights.

 See how we discovered a novel class of biomarkers for Alzheimer’s detection

 
 
 
 
 
 
 02 Intentionally design custom models

 We develop a deep understanding of how models work—and use that insight to build custom, interpretable AI models aligned to your real objectives.

 Learn about our research direction on intentional model design

 
 
 
 
 
 
 03 Fundamental research

 We pioneer new techniques across training, adaptation, monitoring, and inference to push the frontier of what's possible today with AI models.

 Read our latest research updates on understanding and designing AI models

 
 
 
 
 
 
 Company Our team helped found the field of modern AI interpretability

 We bring together researchers, engineers, and builders from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, Palantir, and Two Sigma, alongside leading academics from institutions like Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.

 Research 

 We’re investing in fundamental research to uncover how neural networks work at their core Using Interpretability to Identify a Novel Class of Alzheimer's Biomarkers

 January 28, 2026 
 
 
 
 
 
 Features as Rewards: Using Interpretability to Reduce Hallucinations

 February 11, 2026 
 
 
 
 
 
 Discovering Undesired Rare Behaviors via Model Diff Amplification

 August 21, 2025 
 
 
 
 
 
 Blog

 Progress updates and product demos from the Goodfire team February 5, 2026 Understanding, Learning From, and Designing AI: Our Series B

 
 
 
 
 
 
 February 5, 2026 Intentionally Designing the Future of AI

 
 
 
 
 
 
 October 2, 2025 You and Your Research Agent: Lessons From Using Agents for Interpretability Research

 
 
 
 
 
 
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