Product-wise this seems to fall into the "sounds great, if it a) works well and b) is cheap enough to use regularly" category, so instead I'll leave some more general musings on the company for my fellow nosy outsiders:<p>After researching this company for a bit and reading stuff ranging from their basic-but-spot-on vision statement published today[1] and a careers page that reads like any ML researcher's dream[2] all the way to a (shockingly nuanced!) discussion of "red flags" on /r/MachineLearning[3], I think the only clear takeaway is that this is a fascinating+enigmatic entrant to the AI field.<p>For example, California's Senator Wiener gave them credit in a Twitter post for "supporting" the writing of SB1047[4], the strongest AI safety bill in the US by a longshot (...that was sadly killed late last year by an alt-right podcaster). I know we're rightfully cynical on here about AI regulation pushed by for-profit firms, but helping write the bill that OpenAI criticized seems like a unique badge of honor! It does make me wonder why they're a purely for-profit firm if they're so interested in safety; both Anthropic and OpenAI2.0 are organized as Public Benefit Corporations, which IMO is at least a better-than-nothing pinky-promise. Redditors mentioned the founders are loosely associated with e/acc, so maybe they're just free market true believers?<p>On the tech side: they've been around since 2021 as "Generally Intelligent" (yes, <i>that</i> one...), but after a long post-GPT2 period of focusing on foundational models & benchmarks, this is is their first consumer product announcment AFAICT. They describe the underlying tech as an "agent environment architecture," which seems to match my initial impression that they've pivoted somewhat towards symbolic architectonics?<p>I happen to be way too confident that this is the only way forward for 99% of non-dominant players, so it gives me hope that a seemingly ethics-forward, research-focused company is well along their way here! When I asked the "does it work well" question at the top, I think it's telling that I wasn't questioning the underlying model's one-shot IQ, but rather the system's UX and internal deliberation architecture...<p>Godspeed Josh n co. All that aside, excited to see Sculptor in action someday!<p><i>P.S.</i> If any insiders read this: is the name a reference to Minksy's "Sculpting" paper[5]??? He's been losing the usage battle to "vibe coding" much to my dismay, so I'd be thrilled to have a new ally lol<p>[1] <a href="https://imbue.com/company/vision/" rel="nofollow">https://imbue.com/company/vision/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://imbue.com/careers/" rel="nofollow">https://imbue.com/careers/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/17hns0t/d_imbuegenerally_intelligent/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/17hns0t/d_...</a><p>[4] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_and_Secure_Innovation_for_Frontier_Artificial_Intelligence_Models_Act" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_and_Secure_Innovation_for...</a><p>[5] Starts on page 49 in this (19-page) PDF: <a href="https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/minksy91.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/minksy91.pdf</a>