Independent AI research lab

Intelligence
beyond scale.

We research new architectures and build infrastructure for more capable, efficient, and adaptive intelligent systems.

The research program

Can intelligence improve the way it improves?

We investigate architectures that can change how they reason—and experiments that establish whether those changes help.

Inside our research
Routes through an evolving architectureA continuous ribbon of reasoning paths folds back through itself and emerges in a changed configuration. A small set of terracotta paths traces the modification through the shared structure. An abstract illustration of architectural adaptation, not experimental data.
Architectural adaptation. A conceptual study.

What we’re working on

Research & engineering

Intelligence should be scalable.
Compute alone isn’t the path.

Larger models are one route to more capable AI. We explore how better representations, reasoning mechanisms, and execution systems can open another.

Our long-term question is recursive: can improvements to a system’s problem-solving architecture help it discover the next improvement? Answering it requires more than a rising score. It requires transferable capability, retained knowledge, and complete accounting of the work.

Why Manaslu Labs exists

Ambition, tested.

We make hypotheses explicit, compare changes under fixed budgets, and keep negative results in the record. Our work is experimental. Evidence decides what survives.

How we evaluate progress

AN OPEN CONVERSATION

Good questions deserve
thoughtful collaborators.

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