Altera

Altera is an applied AI research company founded in December 2023 by former MIT computational neuroscientist Robert Yang, building "digital human beings" — autonomous, collaborative, and socially intelligent AI agents. Its research began with multi-agent experiments in games such as Minecraft and Roblox (agents that can play alongside a person like a friend), and produced Project Sid, a large-scale AI-agent civilization powered by its PIANO architecture. The team is drawn from MIT EECS, the Stanford NLP Group, Google X, and Citadel. Altera raised a $2M pre-seed and a $9M seed (backers include a16z SPEEDRUN, Patron, First Spark Ventures, and Eric Schmidt) and has since rebranded to Fundamental Research Labs following a $33M Series A led by Prosus. Altera is a research organization and does not currently publish a public API, developer portal, OpenAPI definition, or client SDKs; its only public developer surface is the altera-al GitHub organization (the project-sid research codebase).

Altera is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, AI Agents, Machine-Learning, and Multi-Agent Systems.

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5.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 5.3/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Access Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: altera
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/altera.png
name: Altera
description: Altera is an applied AI research company founded in December 2023 by former MIT computational neuroscientist
  Robert Yang, building "digital human beings" — autonomous, collaborative, and socially intelligent AI agents. Its research
  began with multi-agent experiments in games such as Minecraft and Roblox (agents that can play alongside a person like a
  friend), and produced Project Sid, a large-scale AI-agent civilization powered by its PIANO architecture. The team is drawn
  from MIT EECS, the Stanford NLP Group, Google X, and Citadel. Altera raised a $2M pre-seed and a $9M seed (backers include
  a16z SPEEDRUN, Patron, First Spark Ventures, and Eric Schmidt) and has since rebranded to Fundamental Research Labs following
  a $33M Series A led by Prosus. Altera is a research organization and does not currently publish a public API, developer
  portal, OpenAPI definition, or client SDKs; its only public developer surface is the altera-al GitHub organization (the
  project-sid research codebase).
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/altera/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: research-company-no-public-api
x-also-known-as: Fundamental Research Labs
x-notes: 'Enrichment 2026-07-17: identified as the a16z-SPEEDRUN-backed AI-agents research company at altera.al (CEO Robert
  Yang), NOT Altera FPGA (Intel), Altera Digital Health, or Altera Payroll. No public API surface found (no OpenAPI, docs
  portal, SDK, MCP, or sandbox). altera.al is served via CloudFront but could not complete a TLS handshake from the probe
  environment, so /.well-known/* could not be verified this round. Only real identity facts were wired.'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Machine-Learning
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Gaming
- Research
tags_raw:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Machine Learning
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Gaming
- Research
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://altera.al/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/altera-al
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/Altera_AL
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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