aid: altera
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-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: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- 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