Research preview

Base models, served for research.

Direct, token-level access to large language base models, over an OpenAI-compatible API. Free for researchers.

We aim to support research in AI safety and interpretability, understanding LLM psychology and personas, cyborgism-style human-AI collaboration, and more.

Read our brief intro to LM psychology.

What you get

  • Base models

    You get the pretrained model, with no chat or instruction tuning. It reads your prompt exactly as you wrote it, with no template and no system prompt.

  • Token-level access

    See the log probability of every token and of its top alternatives. For your prompt, you can get the full vocabulary at each position.

  • Activations & steering

    Read the activations at the layers you choose, or add steering vectors to change what the model writes.

  • Playground and API

    Try an idea in the browser Playground. Then run the full experiment through the OpenAI-compatible API.

Models

  • meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B
  • meta-llama/Llama-3.1-405B
  • arcee-ai/Trinity-Large-TrueBase

Need base models for your research?