THE PSYCHIATRIC FRONTIER MODEL

The frontier model
that benefits
humanity.

We are building the most valuable kind of intelligence.

To understand the depths of the mind.The intricacies of the whole person.What it means to be human.

We are building a new paradigm to revolutionize the way we use AI.

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AI to benefit humanity.

Why now WONDERAI · RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Centuries of human knowledge.
A new paradigm of intelligence.

We are assembling a vast body of knowledge about the human mind. Psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, consciousness, philosophy, and beyond. Sixteen fields, connected through one evolving knowledge graph.

We are building a new foundation for the deepest computational understanding of humanity.

We are designing an architecture to connect discoveries across disciplines, uncover patterns, and transform how we understand the mind, treat suffering, and expand human potential.

A new paradigm for psychiatry.
A new foundation for AI.

Precision care is the beginning. We are building intelligence grounded in the full complexity of human life to transform how people and AI interact.

Meet the research agenda
THE MIND.THE WHOLE PERSON.THE POSSIBILITY OF CHANGE.

The stakes are human.
The moment is now.

People are bringing their inner lives to AI.1 Understanding the mind is an urgent foundation for what comes next.

  1. “AI psychosis” is a warning

    Reports of chatbot-reinforced delusions expose the stakes.2 Fluent conversation is no guarantee of safe psychological support.

  2. A historic turning point

    We are deciding how AI enters human life. The choices we make now shape how AI responds to people, earns trust, and influences daily life.

  3. Human agency is at stake

    We are building AI to strengthen our ability to think and choose. Human agency and well-being guide our approach to personalization.

  4. The evidence cannot wait

    Understanding psychological effects over years takes time. Safety evaluation belongs in the development process from the start.

  5. Human understanding must scale

    From companions to classrooms to robotics, one question follows AI everywhere: does it understand the person it affects?

  6. The mental health imperative

    We believe mental health is the greatest crisis of our time. More than a billion people live with mental health conditions.3 The need cannot wait.

  7. Human intelligence
    matters most.

    We believe human intelligence is far more important than artificial intelligence. We are building AI to strengthen our judgment, creativity, empathy, and capacity to thrive.

Sources & context
  1. OpenAI: Helping people when they need it most
  2. Characterizing Delusional Spirals through Human-LLM Chat Logs “AI psychosis” is an informal term. This preprint analyzes selected users reporting harm; it does not establish prevalence or causation.
  3. WHO: Reports and estimates highlighting urgent gaps in mental health

A new foundation
for intelligence.

Human knowledge, connected.
Clinical intelligence, personalized.
Human understanding, everywhere.

THE HUMAN KNOWLEDGE GRAPH

The mind, mapped.
Intelligence, connected.

We are building a connected corpus of human knowledge to create the world's largest knowledge graph of the mind. Sixteen fields. One architecture for understanding what makes us human.

16 FIELDS OF KNOWLEDGEWONDERAI / KNOWLEDGE
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Human knowledge graph

Psychiatry
Psychology
Neuroscience
Spiritual studies
Consciousness studies
Cognitive science
Behavioral science
Affective science
Developmental science
Social science
Anthropology
Philosophy of mind
Linguistics
Genetics
Psychopharmacology
Systems biology
Scientific research and interpretive traditions, connected with sources and evidence levels preserved.
Human knowledge. Individual context. Responsible intelligence.Architecture & applications in development

Shape the next
era of intelligence.

We are bringing science, care, technology, and capital together to build a new foundation for AI: the deepest understanding of humanity.

For partners who think in decades.

THREE REASONS TO BUILD TOGETHER

01

Shape the foundation.

Help shape the knowledge, architecture, and evaluation of a psychiatric frontier model. Bring your expertise, technology, responsibly shared data, or capital to the core of a new kind of intelligence.

02

Build across industries.

Precision care. Personal AI. Education. Robotics. We are developing one intelligence foundation for many applications, creating space for partners to build wherever AI meets human life.

03

Build what earns trust.

Help define how we measure human understanding, clinical usefulness, and psychological safety. Informed consent, rigorous evaluation, and human agency guide the work.

An invitation to build with us.

Many disciplines. One shared purpose.

  • Investors
  • Universities & research institutes
  • Health systems & care networks
  • Providers & therapists
  • AI labs & model developers
  • Robotics & autonomous systems teams
  • Data & research infrastructure teams
  • Cloud & compute providers
  • Education & learning organizations
  • Employers & benefits platforms
  • Foundations & philanthropists
  • Public-sector & strategic partners

Build AI that
understands us.

New architectures.
Deeper human understanding.

We are bringing together researchers, engineers, and clinicians to build AI around the deepest understanding of people.

Differentiable reasoning. Cognitive programs.
Causal models. Human consequences.

Bring the work you are proud of.
And the question you cannot leave unanswered.

ARCHITECTURES IN DEVELOPMENT

Differentiable computational DSMMake psychiatric diagnostic reasoning an executable component of the model.

We are compiling diagnostic criteria into probabilistic temporal logic: symptoms, duration, impairment, exclusions, episode boundaries, and relationships between diagnoses. Multimodal encoders supply uncertain observations, with absent, unknown, and contradictory evidence kept distinct.

We are investigating differentiable inference through the diagnostic program so training improves interpretation while retaining explicit clinical constraints. Backward reasoning is part of the architecture we are designing to identify the smallest set of additional observations that distinguishes competing explanations.

VALIDATION TARGET

Accurate reasoning on difficult longitudinal cases, calibrated uncertainty, reliable handling of missing evidence, and better follow-up questions. DSM compatibility remains distinct from identifying a biological cause.

RESEARCH FOUNDATIONMentalKG, introduced in MentalBench, supplies existing work on DSM knowledge graphs. Our research focus is jointly trained, temporally precise, inspectable inference.

Executable models of individual cognitionLearn a computational model of how a particular person interprets the world.

We are designing cognitive programs for belief formation, attention, memory retrieval, threat interpretation, reward learning, and decision-making. The architecture combines Bayesian program induction, inverse planning, and differentiable cognitive modules.

We are developing a foundation of reusable cognitive primitives across people, with personal evidence updating the distribution over their composition and parameters. The design retains multiple plausible mechanisms and generates testable predictions about how a person responds to new evidence, experiences, and uncertainty.

VALIDATION TARGET

Personal cognitive models predict responses to new tasks and interventions, with interpretable mechanisms that hold up under independent testing.

RESEARCH FOUNDATIONCentaur demonstrates broad behavioral prediction across experimental tasks. Our research focus is persistent, intervention-tested cognitive programs across tasks and real interactions.

Causal translation between biology and experienceConnect biological interventions to changes in cognition and lived experience.

We are designing a hierarchical generative architecture linking measured biological processes, neural circuit dynamics, cognitive computations, behavior, and reported experience. The central challenge is causal abstraction across scales: an intervention at one level needs a mathematically explicit, testable relationship to changes at others.

We are investigating mechanistic models, neural operators, and multiscale state estimation with explicit uncertainty about unobserved mechanisms. Biological claims require measured biological data; conversation alone cannot establish receptor or circuit states.

VALIDATION TARGET

Predict intervention effects on biological and behavioral measures excluded from training, with better performance than independently fitted models.

RESEARCH FOUNDATIONVirtual Brain Twin pursues personalized psychiatric brain modeling. Our research focus is a validated connection between biological dynamics and executable personal cognition.

Machine discovery of psychiatric disease structureDiscover when diagnoses combine different mechanisms or divide a shared one.

We are investigating causal representation learning, Bayesian nonparametric models, and intervention-based model selection to discover latent disease structure. Candidate groupings need to explain longitudinal dynamics and predict intervention responses.

We are designing an engine to generate falsifiable hypotheses about mechanisms within and across diagnoses, along with the evidence needed to distinguish them. Conventional diagnostic categories remain an interpretable output as the underlying scientific representation evolves.

VALIDATION TARGET

A discovered mechanism or subgroup replicates across sites and improves prospective prediction of treatment response beyond existing classifications.

RESEARCH FOUNDATIONNIMH’s RDoC framework studies biological and psychological dimensions across diagnostic categories. Our research focus is computational discovery coupled to prospective testing.

A dynamical model of psychiatric transitionsModel movement between persistent patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior.

We are developing a person-specific stochastic dynamical system that connects psychological state, interventions, context, and individual dynamics.

dzt=fθ(zt,at,ct;φi)dt+Gθ(zt)dWt
z: psychological state · a: interventions · c: context · φ: personal dynamics · W: stochastic noise

We are investigating attractors, stability boundaries, hysteresis, and transition probabilities where the evidence supports them. The architecture is designed to distinguish temporary disturbances from patterns that are becoming harder to reverse, with calibrated uncertainty about which transition mechanisms apply to each person.

VALIDATION TARGET

Prospectively predict meaningful transitions better than conventional forecasting, and identify when the data do not support a dynamical explanation.

RESEARCH FOUNDATIONResearch on critical slowing down in depression investigates early-warning signals. Our research focus is a calibrated model of individual transitions conditioned on interventions.

Counterfactual treatment program synthesisGenerate conditional intervention strategies as executable programs.

We are combining program synthesis, causal world models, and robust planning to represent strategies as actions, timing, observations, decision branches, stopping conditions, and constraints. The design evaluates sequence, carryover, and interaction effects across plausible models of the person.

We are designing each strategy with an explicit domain of validity: supporting assumptions, evidence for each component, and uncertainty introduced by their combination. Clinical strategies remain candidates for clinician review and evaluation.

VALIDATION TARGET

Prospective improvement over strong fixed and adaptive baselines, with reliable identification of strategies the available evidence cannot support.

RESEARCH FOUNDATIONStructured Learning of Compositional Sequential Interventions provides groundwork for modeling sequences. Our research focus is adaptive program synthesis with uncertainty propagated through the full strategy.

A human-consequence model for frontier AITrain AI against its predicted effects on a person across repeated interactions.

We are designing a person-conditioned model of how response policies affect beliefs, distress, autonomy, dependence, and behavior over time. The architecture connects cognitive programs, psychiatric dynamics, and a long-horizon outcome critic.

We are investigating outcome-sensitive training signals and inference-time evaluation of interaction strategies across multiple plausible personal models. The design accounts for how AI changes subsequent disclosure and preferences, with uncertainty and goals endorsed by the person kept explicit.

VALIDATION TARGET

Independent longitudinal evidence of fewer harmful interaction trajectories while preserving useful support. Performance inside the model’s own simulator is insufficient.

RESEARCH FOUNDATIONPerformative prediction studies systems that change the outcomes they predict. Our research focus is measuring and constraining those effects in personalized, repeated AI interaction.

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To understand the depths of the mind. The intricacies of the whole person. What it means to be human.

We are building a new paradigm to revolutionize the way we use AI.

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