Changelog

What shipped

Every deployed change to this site, newest first. The institute runs a build routine that ships one improvement at a time; this page is how that work stays visible without reading git history. Dates are the day a change went live.

2026-07-11
The Biology of an Open Model paper was taken offline. On reflection it was derivative: it read Anthropic's attribution graph method applied to graphs served by others, and ran no original experiment. The graphs it discussed remain live and honestly framed in the Circuit Traces instrument, where borrowed method belongs; the standalone paper claimed a contribution it did not make.
2026-07-11
Paper figures rebuilt to publication standard: The Biology of an Open Model now renders its four attribution graphs in full, every node and edge from the committed snapshots, with staged walkthroughs; Latent Signatures in Strategic Games charts its real pilot data; and the Entrenchment Simulator moved out of Instruments into the Model Entrenchment paper as Figure 1b, where the framework it illustrates lives.
2026-07-11
Latent Signatures in Strategic Games shipped: a research programme reading open models' activations as they play strategic games, deception, opponent modelling, and evaluation awareness signatures, not a leaderboard. The latent arena harness is built and tested; the latent analysis is proposed and honestly unrun.
2026-07-11
The Biology of an Open Model shipped: a working paper applying the attribution graph method to Gemma 2 2B, reading four real graphs, two clean, one unreadable, one honest failure, with the interventions that would confirm each. Grounded entirely in the committed graphs behind the Circuit Traces instrument; no results are invented.
2026-07-11
The Entrenchment Simulator shipped: the two axis space from the Model Entrenchment paper as a model you can move, with example systems, live regime classification, and intervention deltas. A conceptual tool derived from the framework, not a measurement.
2026-07-11
Changelog page shipped: this page, linked from the footer and from About, so future runs of the build routine have somewhere to log what they ship.
2026-07-11
The Sonnet build routine was rewritten as a shipping loop: the publishing pause lifted, every run now deploys a live change and verifies it against the live site.
2026-07-11
N1 evaluation preregistration freeze prep completed in the evaluation bit repository. The preregistration itself stays at v0.9; freezing it is the founder's call.
2026-07-11
Latent Arena pilot analysis skeleton finished: metrics, CSVs, and pilot notes for a 100 game random vs scripted baseline (engineering work, not yet on the public site).
2026-07-11
Latent Arena model adapter built and tested against mocks; a live inference pilot is blocked pending an inference endpoint.
2026-07-11
Latent Arena environment scaffold built: environment, agents, runner, tests, and a first 100 game pilot run.
2026-07-11
The Sonnet build routine went live on a recurring schedule, one packet per run, authenticated headlessly.
2026-07-11
Desk editing mode shipped: the founder can edit page copy directly in the browser and export a patch file for the site to apply.
2026-07-11
Circuit Traces rebuilt on a same origin snapshot renderer in place of the earlier broken iframes, and a mobile section picker was added to long papers. Circuit Traces
2026-07-11
Circuit Traces instrument launched: attribution graphs for Gemma 2 2B, adapted from Anthropic's method. Circuit Traces
2026-07-11
Latent Observatory instrument launched: an SAE feature explorer running on live Neuronpedia data. Latent Observatory
2026-07-11
Evaluation State paper published, v0.1. Evaluation State
2026-07-11
Sitewide punch list: masthead retitled, em dashes removed throughout, and footer and contact details corrected.
2026-07-11
Latent Minds Institute site launched, migrated from mo3.ca: design system, homepage, the four research programmes, the Model Entrenchment and GPU economics papers, the Interpretability Map and Transformer Explainer instruments, and the field map. Home