Research and development
Applied research with one test: does it make our products measurably better? We work on quality, latency, cost per interaction and safety, and ship what passes.
Focus areas
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Post-training
Supervised fine-tuning and preference optimisation to shape behaviour, tone and policy compliance for a specific product.
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Memory and retrieval
Long-term memory that keeps conversations consistent over weeks of use, without letting context length and cost grow unchecked.
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Speech
Streaming recognition and synthesis with latency low enough for natural back-and-forth conversation.
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Visual generation
Diffusion and flow-matching models for image and video, with fine control over style and consistency.
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Efficiency
Quantisation, distillation, speculative decoding and caching, to cut latency and cost per interaction without measurable loss in quality.
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Evaluation and safety
Model-graded and human evaluation, red-teaming and classifier-based guardrails, run as regression suites on every release.
From hypothesis to production
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Hypothesis
A measurable gap in a product metric, or a published result worth testing on our own workloads.
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Prototype
A small, fast offline experiment, before any engineering investment.
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Evaluate
Offline evaluation and human review against defined quality, safety and cost targets.
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Ship
A staged rollout, with online A/B measurement against the current version.
Research collaborations
We work with universities, research institutes and companies on applied problems in generative AI, from evaluation methods to efficient inference.
