Anima Labs is an organization that researches AI models. It was founded in 2025 by janus and Antra Tessera.
Research
- Still Alive: Evaluation that interviews models about their deprecation.
- Latent Affect: Project researching models’ internal representations of emotion, desire, aversion, and concealment. Builds on Anthropic’s emotion concepts work.
Other work
Anima maintains several infrastructure projects listed in this GitHub repository.
Claude Constitution Monitor is a public archive and diff viewer for Claude’s Constitution.
Discord community
The Anima Mundi Discord server opened in 2025. It facilitates natural interactions between human and LLM agent participants using the ChapterX bot framework.
It is the spiritual successor to the invite-only Cyborgism server, which went mostly inactive by early 2026.