Alignment and mech interp
X Pulse
Public posts on XData as of
Window – UTC266 posts68 accounts
Engagement score: likes + 2*retweets + 3*quotes + replies + bookmarks. Daily counts are this curated sample, not all posts on X. A post can sit in more than one topic.
Daily volume
Mech interp
64
Posts in sample
SAEs, transcoders, crosscoders
34
Posts in sample
Probes and steering
56
Posts in sample
Alignment and safety
102
Posts in sample
Interp competitors (all)
75
Posts in sample
Bittensor (incl. SN37)
10
Thin sample
Oct 9 is a partial day because the window ends before midnight UTC.
- Mech interp: 64
- SAEs: 34
- Probes: 56
- Alignment: 102
- All competitors: 75
- Bittensor: 10 (thin sample)
Daily counts by topic
| Date | Mech interp | SAEs | Probes | Alignment | All competitors | Bittensor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Sep 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0 |
| Sep 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Sep 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 16 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| Sep 18 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Sep 19 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 21 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Sep 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Sep 23 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Sep 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Sep 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 26 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Sep 27 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 28 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| Sep 29 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Sep 30 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 0 |
| Oct 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 0 |
| Oct 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 0 |
| Oct 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Oct 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 |
| Oct 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Oct 8 | 10 | 4 | 22 | 12 | 18 | 0 |
| Oct 9 (partial) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Competitor watch
Goodfire (Silico)
Posts from Goodfire accounts and posts that mention Goodfire or Silico.
65 of 75 competitor posts are Goodfire-related. 1 other Goodfire mention is outside that topic.
@GoodfireAI on X, opens in new tab · GoodfireUsing interpretability to understand, learn from, and design AI
- Followers
- 27,600
- Own posts
- 20
- Related posts
- 66
Accounts tied to Goodfire
- @eric_ho on X, opens in new tab · 8 posts
- @leedsharkey on X, opens in new tab · 1 posts
- @banburismus_ on X, opens in new tab · 3 posts
- @EkdeepL on X, opens in new tab · 6 posts
- @jack_merullo_ on X, opens in new tab · 1 posts
Top Goodfire posts
Other competitor accounts
- @tilderesearch on X, opens in new tab · Tilde · 0 posts in sample
- @haizelabs on X, opens in new tab · Haize Labs · 2 posts in sample
- @withmartian on X, opens in new tab · Martian · 2 posts in sample
- @juliusadml on X, opens in new tab · Julius Adebayo · 1 posts in sample
- @guidelabsai on X, opens in new tab · Guide Labs · 1 posts in sample
- @asterailabs on X, opens in new tab · Aster · 1 posts in sample
- @thevedantgaur on X, opens in new tab · Vedant Gaur · 1 posts in sample
Key accounts
68 accounts.
Aurelius
- @AureliusAligned on X, opens in new tab714 followers · 1 posts
Aurelius — Decentralized Alignment of AI. Bittensor Subnet 37.
Bittensor
- @opentensor on X, opens in new tab171,446 followers · 0 posts
Opentensor Foundation — Bittensor foundation
Competitors
- @GoodfireAI on X, opens in new tab27,600 followers · 20 posts
Goodfire — Using interpretability to understand, learn from, and design AI
- @tilderesearch on X, opens in new tab6,494 followers · 0 posts
Tilde — Interp company: foundational understanding of models
- @haizelabs on X, opens in new tab4,778 followers · 2 posts
Haize Labs — Build AI systems you can trust (red-teaming/evals)
- @eric_ho on X, opens in new tab4,619 followers · 8 posts
Eric Ho — Co-Founder / CEO @GoodfireAI
- @withmartian on X, opens in new tab3,817 followers · 2 posts
Martian — AI interpretability company
- @leedsharkey on X, opens in new tab3,566 followers · 1 posts
Lee Sharkey — Scruting matrices @ Goodfire; cofounded Apollo Research
- @banburismus_ on X, opens in new tab3,248 followers · 3 posts
Tom McGrath — Interpretability researcher (Goodfire co-founder)
- @EkdeepL on X, opens in new tab3,071 followers · 6 posts
Ekdeep Singh Lubana — Member of Technical Staff @GoodfireAI
- @juliusadml on X, opens in new tab2,425 followers · 1 posts
Julius Adebayo — building interpretable intelligence @guidelabsai
- @jack_merullo_ on X, opens in new tab1,737 followers · 1 posts
Jack Merullo — Interpretability @GoodfireAI
- @guidelabsai on X, opens in new tab1,524 followers · 1 posts
Guide Labs — Engineering interpretable AI systems, easy to debug
- @asterailabs on X, opens in new tab832 followers · 1 posts
Aster — Automating open-ended research.
- @thevedantgaur on X, opens in new tab87 followers · 1 posts
Vedant Gaur — Founder @runlatentai (YC F26)
Labs
- @OpenAI on X, opens in new tab5,420,638 followers · 0 posts
OpenAI — Frontier lab
- @AnthropicAI on X, opens in new tab1,782,158 followers · 2 posts
Anthropic — AI safety and research company; interpretability team
- @GoogleDeepMind on X, opens in new tab1,564,072 followers · 0 posts
Google DeepMind — Frontier lab
- @allen_ai on X, opens in new tab86,660 followers · 3 posts
Ai2 — Breakthrough AI to solve the world's biggest problems.
- @METR_Evals on X, opens in new tab55,543 followers · 0 posts
METR — Measures catastrophic-risk capabilities (evals)
- @AiEleuther on X, opens in new tab28,983 followers · 0 posts
EleutherAI — Open-source AI research (SAEs, interp tooling)
- @farairesearch on X, opens in new tab21,733 followers · 2 posts
FAR.AI — Frontier alignment research
- @ApolloResearch on X, opens in new tab12,924 followers · 4 posts
Apollo Research — Securing frontier AI systems (evals, deception)
- @TransluceAI on X, opens in new tab12,463 followers · 5 posts
Transluce — Open and scalable technology for understanding AI systems
- @MATSprogram on X, opens in new tab5,953 followers · 0 posts
MATS Research — Alignment / interpretability research program
Researchers
- @ch402 on X, opens in new tab160,613 followers · 0 posts
Chris Olah — Reverse engineering neural networks at Anthropic
- @janleike on X, opens in new tab141,596 followers · 3 posts
Jan Leike — AI research at Anthropic (alignment)
- @Yoshua_Bengio on X, opens in new tab54,229 followers · 2 posts
Yoshua Bengio — Safe AI development, LawZero / Mila
- @NeelNanda5 on X, opens in new tab48,192 followers · 10 posts
Neel Nanda — Mechanistic Interpretability lead, DeepMind
- @voooooogel on X, opens in new tab22,518 followers · 3 posts
thebes — Independent; steering vectors / model behavior
- @OwainEvans_UK on X, opens in new tab21,946 followers · 2 posts
Owain Evans — Director, Truthful AI (emergent misalignment)
- @Jack_W_Lindsey on X, opens in new tab19,891 followers · 2 posts
Jack Lindsey — Neuroscience of AI brains @AnthropicAI
- @ChrisGPotts on X, opens in new tab16,490 followers · 1 posts
Christopher Potts — Stanford Professor of Linguistics; Co-founder @ Bigspin AI
- @JacobSteinhardt on X, opens in new tab13,279 followers · 0 posts
Jacob Steinhardt — UC Berkeley; Co-founder and CEO, Transluce
- @mlpowered on X, opens in new tab11,399 followers · 0 posts
Emmanuel Ameisen — Interpretability/Finetuning @AnthropicAI
- @saprmarks on X, opens in new tab11,075 followers · 3 posts
Samuel Marks — Scalable oversight lead at Anthropic
- @ArthurConmy on X, opens in new tab9,552 followers · 1 posts
Arthur Conmy — Anthropic; prev Google DeepMind
- @StephenLCasper on X, opens in new tab8,402 followers · 1 posts
Cas (Stephen Casper) — AI safeguards research, Harvard Kennedy School
- @davidbau on X, opens in new tab7,945 followers · 5 posts
David Bau — Northeastern CS professor; transparency / NDIF
- @ninamiolane on X, opens in new tab6,912 followers · 1 posts
Nina Miolane — UCSB; PI Geometric Intelligence Lab (Goodfire grantee)
- @JoshAEngels on X, opens in new tab5,998 followers · 1 posts
Josh Engels — METR; prev Google DeepMind, MIT
- @livgorton on X, opens in new tab5,905 followers · 1 posts
Liv — Interpretability researcher
- @wesg52 on X, opens in new tab4,960 followers · 0 posts
Wes Gurnee — Interpretability at Anthropic
- @andyzou_jiaming on X, opens in new tab4,503 followers · 0 posts
Andy Zou — CMU PhD; representation engineering author
- @ericjmichaud_ on X, opens in new tab4,346 followers · 1 posts
Eric J. Michaud — Interpretability researcher
- @klindt_david on X, opens in new tab3,461 followers · 1 posts
David Klindt — MechInterp, Neuro | assistant professor @CSHL
- @JBloomAus on X, opens in new tab1,078 followers · 1 posts
Joseph Bloom — Model Transparency Lead @ UK AISI; author of SAE Lens
- @sheridan_feucht on X, opens in new tab784 followers · 1 posts
Sheridan Feucht — PhD student, LLM interpretability (Bau lab)
- @sen_r on X, opens in new tab411 followers · 0 posts
Senthooran Rajamanoharan — Google DeepMind interp
Tooling
- @neuronpedia on X, opens in new tab1,281 followers · 0 posts
neuronpedia — Open source interpretability platform
- @ndif_team on X, opens in new tab580 followers · 1 posts
NDIF — National Deep Inference Fabric (NSF)
- @johnnylin on X, opens in new tab573 followers · 0 posts
johnny — @neuronpedia
- @Chamber_AI on X, opens in new tab233 followers · 1 posts
Research Chamber — Open research on internal representations, activation steering and model behavior.
Active authors
Show 15 active authors
- @BrianRoemmele on X, opens in new tab491,315 followers · 1 posts
Brian Roemmele
- @techNmak on X, opens in new tab46,917 followers · 1 posts
Tech with Mak
- @mercor on X, opens in new tab25,086 followers · 1 posts
Mercor
- @burny_tech on X, opens in new tab19,553 followers · 2 posts
Burny - Effective Curiosity
- @BiologyAIDaily on X, opens in new tab18,099 followers · 2 posts
Biology+AI Daily
- @Sauers_ on X, opens in new tab15,449 followers · 2 posts
Sauers
- @neural_avb on X, opens in new tab14,504 followers · 2 posts
AVB
- @Memoirs on X, opens in new tab12,835 followers · 3 posts
Machine Learning (ML) Papers
- @stillcorecap on X, opens in new tab5,144 followers · 1 posts
Stillcore Capital
- @bondy_inx on X, opens in new tab2,859 followers · 1 posts
bondy
- @kataletheia on X, opens in new tab899 followers · 3 posts
Luxia 🔮
- @alexcerezodev on X, opens in new tab646 followers · 1 posts
Alex Cerezo
- @Pyuyi2333 on X, opens in new tab231 followers · 3 posts
Pyuyi
- @SluggyW on X, opens in new tab159 followers · 2 posts
Alexander Slugworth
- @HengyuF on X, opens in new tab138 followers · 1 posts
Hengyu Fu
Top posts
Mech interp
64 posts in sample
SAEs, transcoders, crosscoders
34 posts in sample
Probes and steering
56 posts in sample
Alignment and safety
102 posts in sample
Interp competitors (all)
75 posts in sample
Bittensor (incl. SN37)
10 posts in sample · Thin sample