01Evidence-grounded cognition
Keep important claims connected to their origin with source-linked memory, freshness tracking, contradiction handling, and separate confidence and evidence estimates.
An AI system that can explain what supports a conclusion, what is missing, and what would change it.
02Persistent context and memory
Investigate layered memory for working context, decisions, source material, project history, semantic knowledge, skills, and scoped adaptation.
Continuity across long software projects, changing codebases, research programs, and operational workflows.
03Passive and active comprehension
Observe entities, events, changes, anomalies, and unresolved contradictions before a question arrives, then investigate deliberately when a goal or uncertainty appears.
A system that is prepared to reason about a living environment rather than only reacting to the latest prompt.
04Adaptive computation
Explore fast paths for familiar work and deeper computation for ambiguity, novelty, risk, or long-horizon planning.
More useful work per unit of compute without treating every input as equally difficult.
05Predictive world models
Represent entities, state, events, actions, dependencies, and possible futures so the system can compare outcomes before acting.
Better planning, side-effect prediction, recovery after failure, and investigation of complex systems.
06Governed agents
Give tool-using systems explicit identity, capabilities, data scope, risk budgets, evidence requirements, reversibility, and approval thresholds.
Increasingly capable agents that preserve human control, traceability, and clear boundaries.
07Continual adaptation
Separate fast episode state, scoped reversible changes, and persistent updates accepted only after verification, replay, and retention testing.
Learning from experience without treating every interaction as permanent truth.
08Recursive investigation
Treat external context as an environment to investigate through metadata, bounded retrieval, subproblems, specialists, deterministic tools, and source-backed synthesis.
Effective operation over large repositories, document collections, histories, and research corpora while active memory stays bounded.
09Learning from failure
Turn wrong sources, failed patches, missed contradictions, unsupported actions, and repeated strategies into structured replay and correction signals.
A persistent system that makes fewer repeated mistakes, not simply one that stores more conversations.
10Efficient model development
Study waste across low-value examples, redundant supervision, uniform computation, long-context activation cost, and unnecessary updates.
A research path toward more efficient training and post-training, evaluated with complete cost accounting.