Goodfire announced a $7 million seed funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Menlo Ventures, South Park Commons, Work-Bench, Juniper Ventures, Mythos Ventures, Bluebirds Capital, and several notable angels to advance its mission of demystifying generative AI models.
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The funding will be used to scale up the engineering and research team, as well as to enhance Goodfire’s core technology.
Goodfire building critical infrastructure that empowers developers to understand, edit, and debug AI models at scale, ensuring the creation of safer and more reliable systems. Goodfire is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco.
“Interpretability is emerging as a crucial building block in AI,” said Nnamdi Iregbulem, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. “Goodfire’s tools will serve as a fundamental primitive in AI development, opening up the ability for developers to interact with models in entirely new ways. We’re backing Goodfire to lead this critical layer of the AI stack.”
“We were brought together by our mission, which is to fundamentally advance humanity’s understanding of advanced AI systems,” said Eric Ho, CEO and co-founder of Goodfire. “By making AI models more interpretable and editable, we’re paving the way for safer, more reliable, and more beneficial AI technologies.”
About Goodfire
Goodfire mission is to advance humanity’s understanding of AI by examining the inner workings of advanced AI models (or “AI Interpretability”). As a research-driven product organization, it bridge the gap between theoretical science and practical applications of interpretability.
