The Cognitive Revolution · Saturday, August 8, 2026
Good Fire CTO Dan Balsam announced the launch of Silico, a machine learning research platform that originated as an internal tool. Silico aims to provide wider access to Good Fire's expertise in areas like GPU cluster management and experimental techniques. The platform is priced at $1,000 per month per seat, with discounted pricing planned for safety and alignment researchers.
“The occasion for this conversation is the launch of Silico. A Long Horizon, agentic machine learning research platform, which began as an internal Good Fire tool, but is now meant to democratize access to Good Fire's hard-won expertise, including GPU cluster management, research taste, and all sorts of experimental, visualization, and validation techniques.”
“At $1,000 per month per seat for enterprise customers, it's not cheap, but compared to Good Fire's high-touch research engagements, which are staffed by forward-deployed research engineers and can easily reach into seven figures, it is two orders of magnitude more affordable.”
“And consistent with the company's public benefit charter and safety-focused mission, they will soon be introducing special pricing and grants for safety and alignment researchers, which I definitely intend to apply for myself.”