# Altera

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/altera/  
**Website:** https://altera.al/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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).

## Kin Score — 5.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Artificial Intelligence, AI Agents, Machine-Learning, Multi-Agent Systems, Gaming, Research

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/altera/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.