Trillion Labs launches with a plan to publish the AI research rivals keep private

A new AI lab called Trillium Labs has launched with an unusual pitch: it plans to show its work. Many frontier labs keep their riskiest research private. Trillium says it intends to publish findings on two of the field’s most sensitive topics, AI self-improvement and model behavior. What Trillium is promising Self-improvement means research into AI systems that can make themselves better. Model behavior covers how AI systems actually act once they are trained, including whether they do what their builders intended, and what happens when they don’t. Openness has company, including a similarly named startup Trillium isn’t the only outfit pushing in this direction. South Korea’s Trillion Labs has built its brand around what it calls “radical openness.” Trillion Labs was founded in 2024 by CEO Shin Jae-min, also known as Jay Shin, a former research scientist at Naver. Within one year, the company developed and open-sourced a family of language models it calls the Tri series. Those models range from 0.5B to 70B parameters and were released under the Apache 2.0 license, which lets others use, modify and build on the code with few strings attached. Trillion Labs released intermediate trai...