PERSON DIRECTORY
Dan Balsam
Dan Balsam appears in 2 indexed conversations across The Cognitive Revolution. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
Goodfire has productized its seven-figure forward-deployed interpretability practice as Silico, a $1,000/month platform targeting 5 to 10 autonomous experiments weekly.Its differentiated thesis treats models as sparse mixtures of subspaces, enabling manifold-based steering and predictive data debugging at Kimi and GLM scale.Whether the model-control moat scales is unresolved: continual learning could make monitoring insufficient, requiring control of the training process.
Don't Fight Backprop: Goodfire's Vision for Intentional Design, w/ Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath
Erik TorenbergNathan LabenzDan BalsamTom McGrath
Goodfire’s $150 million Series B at a $1.25 billion valuation turns its interpretability research into an execution test spanning seven-figure engagements and a scalable AI stack.Its hallucination experiment used a frozen reward model to improve behavior without obvious capability loss, but robustness remains conditional on probe quality, training configuration, and scale.