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Dharma-AI is a Brazilian AI research lab specialized in building best-in-class **Specialized Small 
Language Models (SSLMs)** for high-impact, domain-specific problems. Our models are engineered to 
maximize performance while minimizing latency, cost, and environmental footprint — by combining 
state-of-the-art techniques across the full model development stack: from fine-tuning strategies 
to inference optimization.

We believe the future of applied AI is not bigger models, it is **smarter specialization**.


## Research Focus

- **SLM Specialization** — fine-tuning pipelines (SFT, RLHF, GRPO, DPO), multi-stage preference 
optimization, and data curation strategies to push small models to their performance ceiling on 
domain-specific tasks
- **Mechanistic Interpretability of SLMs** — understanding the internal representations and circuits 
of small language models to inform better specialization, diagnose failure modes, and build more 
trustworthy systems
- **GPU Utilization Optimization** — maximizing throughput and minimizing memory footprint through 
quantization, kernel fusion, batching strategies, and efficient serving infrastructure

## Links

[Website](https://dharma-ai.com.br)