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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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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

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Source (apis.yml)

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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).
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