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Guide Labs

At Guide labs, we build Interpretable foundation models and AI systems that can reliably explain their reasoning, and are easy to audit, steer and understand. We provide access to these models via our API.

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Y Combinator
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Y Combinator

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At Guide labs, we build Interpretable foundation models and AI systems that can reliably explain their reasoning, and are easy to audit, steer and understand. We provide access to these models via our API.

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