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| short_description: Building safe and resilient partners in thought. | |
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| <h1>VANTA Research</h1> | |
| <p><strong>Independent AI research lab building safe, resilient language models optimized for human-AI collaboration</strong></p> | |
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| ## Mission | |
| VANTA Research develops language models highly optimized for human-AI collaboration. Additionally, VANTA Research produces work in: | |
| 1. **Pushing beyond standard benchmarks** - Surface capabilities invisible to traditional evaluation | |
| 2. **Exposing where models collapse, deceive, or diverge** - Systematic stress-testing for safety | |
| 3. **Developing innovative tooling to advance AI research** - Open-source frameworks for the community | |
| We believe AI safety research should be accessible, transparent, and built for cognitive diversity. | |
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| ## Featured Models | |
| ### [**Atom-Olmo3-7B**](https://huggingface.co/vanta-research/atom-olmo3-7b) | |
| Specialized language model fine-tuned for collaborative problem-solving and creative exploration. Built on the Olmo-3-7B-Instruct foundation, this model brings thoughtful, structured analysis to complex questions while maintaining an engaging, conversational tone. | |
| ### [**Mox-Tiny-1**](https://huggingface.co/vanta-research/mox-tiny-1) | |
| Unlike traditional assistants that optimize for user satisfaction through validation, Mox will: - Give you direct opinions instead of endless hedging - Push back when your premise is flawed - Admit uncertainty rather than fake confidence - Engage with genuine curiosity and occasional humor. | |
| *Looking for quantizations of our models? We try to include 4 bit quants in each model repo, but if you are looking for more quantization types, we recommend [team mradermacher](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher) who regularly provide high quality quantizations of our models in various sizes/formats. Thank you, team mradermacher.* | |
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| ## Research Contributions | |
| ### **VRRE (VANTA Research Reasoning Evaluation)** | |
| Novel semantic-based benchmark that detected a **2.5x reasoning improvement** completely invisible to standard benchmarks. This suggests we're systematically missing capability improvements when we "teach to the test." | |
| [Read the paper →](https://zenodo.org/records/17162683) | |
| ### **Persona Collapse Framework** | |
| Systematic characterization of reproducible failure modes in LLMs under atypical cognitive stress. Identifies alignment blind spots invisible to standard evaluations. | |
| [Read the paper →](https://zenodo.org/records/17188172) | |
| ### **Cognitive Fit vs. Alignment** | |
| Argument for personalized synchronization in AI systems rather than universal "alignment" - recognizing that optimal model behavior depends on user's cognitive style. | |
| [Read the paper →](https://zenodo.org/records/17346467) | |
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| ## Open Source Philosophy | |
| We stand on the shoulders of the open-source contributors who came before us. Our commitment is to contribute back and make AI development more accessible, transparent, and beneficial for all. | |
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| ## Connect | |
| **Interested in sponsoring our open source work?** | |
| We are actively seeking partnerships/sponserships for API access/compute/funding. | |
| VANTA Research is completely independent and self-funded. If you'd like to fuel our contributions to open source AI, please reach out using one of the methods below: | |
| - **Email:** hello@vantaresearch.xyz | |
| - **Website:** [vantaresearch.xyz](https://vantaresearch.xyz) | |
| - **Twitter/X:** [@vanta_research](https://x.com/vanta_research) | |
| - **GitHub:** [vanta-research](https://github.com/vanta-research) | |
| - **Support:** [VANTA Research Merch Store](https://merch.vantaresearch.xyz) - *100% of proceeds from the online store are reinvested back into VANTA Research's open source contributions (compute, hardware, APIs, storage, etc).* | |
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