Phasis Research
Models reason.
Worlds orient.
We study what should remain outside the model and how intelligence stays in contact with a changing world.
Featured thesis01 · July 2026
Thesis
Intelligence Must Remain in Contact with the World
Most of what a system knows about the world was learned in training and then frozen. Contact with the world has to scale alongside intelligence.
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Alongside
The evidence, and the product.
The thesis argues that contact with the world has to be maintained. These two pieces carry the measurement behind that claim, and what we have built to act on it. We are building the evaluation to test it further, and will publish the methods with the results.
02Technical thesis
The Model Should Not Be the System of Record
Changing domain knowledge needs evidence, history, and stable addresses outside model weights.
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Introducing Worlds
Phasis builds maintained representations of real domains that keep AI agents oriented as reality changes.
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