Don't Fight Backprop: Goodfire's Vision for Intentional Design, w/ Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath
Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam and Chief Scientist Tom McGrath discuss their $150M Series B and new 'intentional design' research agenda, which aims to shape model training dynamics and loss landscapes rather than merely reverse-engineering trained models, alongside advances in geometric interpretability that map continuous conceptual manifolds rather than discrete features.