SynthLabs
Post-training research: synthetic data and scalable RL alignment
SynthLabs is a post-training research company combining RLHF with synthetic AI feedback (RLAIF) to build scalable alignment and reasoning pipelines, publishing open research and datasets used in RL post-training.
Team includes founders of the trlX RLHF library
| Website | synthlabs.ai |
|---|---|
| Domains | Machine Learning, Alignment, RLHF |
| Location | San Francisco |
| Team size | 1-10 |
| Founded | 2023 |
| Funding | Seed (M12 and First Spark Ventures, 2024) |
| Founders | Louis Castricato, Nathan Lile |
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