Laskin and his co-founder believed an independent lab could develop agentic systems more capital-efficiently as open models emerged.

“domains where like mathematics coding like you could that you could make these systems agentic that was the big bet and we thought that you could do this as an independent lab much more capital efficiently because we started seeing open source open open models materialize there was a small model from mistral at the time llama two had just released and we saw llama three coming”