Guide Labs
guidelabs.ai
AI Research Labs
Foundation Models
Explainable AI (XAI)
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$9.3M
1 round on record
Latest round
$9.3M
Venture round · Jun 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Backers
3
Y Combinator, E14 Fund
The money's age
Long since its last round
28 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
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Last sign of life
2 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 24
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates
Jun 10, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $9.3M · SEC Form D
Jan 2024
Went through Y Combinator
2022
Founded
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jun 2024 | $9.3M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Guide Labs Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Julius AdebayoExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Fulton WangExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Y Combinator 
E14 Fund 
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$163k
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Software developers
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In the register as Guide Labs Inc., San Francisco, CA
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OpenAI 
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Reflection AI
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News
Introducing Clarity
Clarity is the first inherently interpretable AI platform, now available by invitation as a research preview.
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Alignment Without Retraining: Auditing and Controlling Steerling-8B
We show how Steerling-8B can suppress toxic and memorized content at inference time without finetuning, and trace model outputs directly to their training data sources.
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Discovering Human-understandable Concepts in Steerling-8B
We show how to extract novel and human-understandable concepts from the recently released Steerling-8B model.
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Steering Interpretable Language Models
We demonstrate reliable, fine-grained control over language model generation by directly injecting, suppressing, and composing human-interpretable concepts at inference time.
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Steerling-8B: The First Inherently Interpretable Language Model
We release Steerling-8B, an 8B-parameter causal diffusion language model that is interpretable by construction - its predictions are routed through concepts you can measure, audit, and control.
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PRISM: Training Data Prototypes for Language Models
We introduce a new family of interpretable language models, PRISM, that enables us to trace predictions back to training data.
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People
Julius Adebayo
Executive Officer, Director
Fulton Wang
Executive Officer, Director
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Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco
United States
HQ
10-50 est. staff
Financials
Total raised
$9.3M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | $9.3M | Details |