# OpenAI — Understanding neural networks through sparse circuits

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-11-13T10:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/understanding-neural-networks-through-sparse-circuits
- Record: https://forck.live/items/383-understanding-neural-networks-through-sparse-circuits

OpenAI is researching mechanistic interpretability and a new sparse model approach to improve transparency and safety of AI systems.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/understanding-neural-networks-through-sparse-circuits:

> OpenAI is exploring mechanistic interpretability to understand how neural networks reason. Our new sparse model approach could make AI systems more transparent and support safer, more reliable behavior.

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