AI infrastructure lab
Building the infrastructure
for modern AI. Making frontier AI easier for the world.
Research Commons is an AI infrastructure lab building the systems required to train, deploy and continuously improve AI models.
Who we are
A research lab, building in the open.
Research Commons is a research-driven infrastructure company, a team of researchers and systems engineers building the infrastructure layer for modern AI. We conduct frontier research and ship the systems it runs on, Tensile and Niko, sharing our work through the Research Commons Lab.
- Active research across programmatic PDF parsing, medical world models and RL-based segmentation.
- Tensile sandboxes, our flagship: state-of-the-art, secure and reproducible environments for running rollouts, evaluations and agentic workloads across any cluster.
- Tensile-Train, a distributed post-training control plane benchmarked against Kubeflow, KubeRay, SkyPilot and Volcano.
- Public SDKs with 10K+ downloads, plus open-source C++ tensor and autograd libraries.
- RL environments and world models delivered to frontier labs.
- Built by engineers and advisors from Google, Microsoft, DeepMind, OpenAI and Mercor, YC Startups, with research published at ICML, EMNLP, MSML and CVIP.
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