Trillium Labs launches for open research on RSI and AI agents

Scientists Nathan Lambert and Tom Zick founded nonprofit Trillium Labs to conduct transparent AI research, including recursive self-improvement and agents. The lab aims to raise $40–100 million and spend $30 million on training over 18 months.

• Founders come from Ai2, Hugging Face and Harvard
• Lab will publish experiment details for replication
• Target: $40–100M raised, $30M on training in 18 months
• Initial focus: post-training and recursive self-improvement