2023 Recap

Last year was wild. We started as an EdTech company and ended as anything but. There's a deep dive on some of the conceptual lore in last week's "Honcho: User Context Management for LLM Apps:"

Plastic Labs was conceived as a research group exploring the intersection of education and emerging technology...with the advent of ChatGPT...we shifted our focus to large language models...we set out to build a non-skeuomorphic, AI-native tutor that put users first...our experimental tutor, Bloom, was remarkably effective--for thousands of users during the 9 months we hosted it for free...

Building a production-grade, user-centric AI application, then giving it nascent theory of mind and metacognition, made it glaringly obvious to us that social cognition in LLMs was both under-explored and under-leveraged.

We pivoted to address this hole in the stack and build the user context management solution agent developers need to truly give their users superpowers. Plastic applied and was accepted to Betaworks' AI Camp: Augment:

We spent camp in a research cycle, then published a pre-print showing it's possible to enhance LLM theory of mind ability with predictive coding-inspired metaprompting.

Then it was back to building.

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