12 domains

Research areas

Frontier Labs maintains continuous coverage of twelve domains. Each is chosen because it is consequential, because it is measurable, and because the existing public record is weaker than the subject deserves.

013 items

Artificial Intelligence

Capability measurement, training economics, evaluation integrity and the trajectory of general-purpose systems.

021 item

Robotics

Task generality, manipulation reliability, deployment economics and the distance between demonstration and duty cycle.

032 items

Economics

Cost curves, capital formation, productivity measurement and the macroeconomics of general-purpose technology.

041 item

Computing

Accelerator performance, memory hierarchies, systems software and the real utilisation of installed capacity.

051 item

Infrastructure

Datacentre construction, interconnect fabrics, cooling systems and the physical constraints on digital expansion.

061 item

Semiconductors

Process nodes, advanced packaging, high-bandwidth memory supply and the geography of fabrication.

071 item

Energy

Grid interconnection, generation mix, power purchase structures and the electricity envelope around computation.

081 item

Cybersecurity

Model weight security, supply chain integrity, offensive capability measurement and defensive economics.

091 item

Software

Engineering productivity, defect rates, maintenance burden and how software is actually produced.

101 item

Open Source

Openly released models, licensing regimes, ecosystem health and the diffusion of capability.

112 items

Public Policy

Regulatory design, compute thresholds, procurement and the instruments available to states.

121 item

Future of Work

Task exposure, wage effects, occupational restructuring and the measurement problems underneath them.