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09/01/2026

What if AI research could create more culture, not less?

Over two days, we sponsored more than 20 live performances across San Francisco, giving local musicians new stages and bringing more live music into public spaces around the city.

Portions of those performances were also recorded to create real-world audio data for AI audio and music research. That data can help advance music education tools, improve how systems understand instruments and musical structure, and create new ways for emerging artists and music to be discovered.

We believe nothing replaces human brilliance. The future of AI in music shouldn’t mean less human creativity. It should help people explore more, learn more, and bring more ideas to life.

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08/27/2026

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08/26/2026

The future of AI belongs to the humans behind it.

There’s a common fear that as AI gets better, people get pushed out of the picture. We believe the opposite is happening.

AI is creating entirely new categories of work, and an entirely new economy around the people whose knowledge, judgment, and experience are helping these systems improve.

Today, tens of thousands of experts are actively contributing to AI training projects through micro1. Over time, we believe this will grow to tens of millions+.

And if humans are going to play such a critical role in building the future of AI, the companies they work with should raise the standard for how they’re supported.

Today, we’re proud to announce the micro1 Expert Support Program.

We’re building a new set of protections, resources, and support for our expert community, starting with:

-Expert Bill of Rights: a clear set of commitments outlining what experts can expect when working with micro1.

-Rest Credits: paid time away from projects when experts need or want a break.

-Expert Emergency Fund: financial support for experts facing emergencies.

-Mental Health & Coaching: new resources to support expert wellbeing and growth.

-Confidential Support Line: a confidential way to ask questions, seek support, or raise concerns related to pipelines.

Within the next two weeks, every expert currently active with micro1 will receive an email with the full program details and launch dates.

AI is going to keep getting more capable. The opportunity in front of us is to make sure the people helping build it benefit from that progress too.

We’re bringing engineers from around the world together for the micro1 Frontier Engineering Hackathon.From August 28-30,...
08/25/2026

We’re bringing engineers from around the world together for the micro1 Frontier Engineering Hackathon.

From August 28-30, participants will use coding agents to tackle a real-world engineering problem designed to test creativity, problem-solving, and technical ex*****on.

- $5,000 total prize pool
- $3,000 for the winner
- 50 top-performing participants selected for paid opportunities with micro1
- Fully online and free to participate

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Last week, we gathered at Filoli Gardens to share a belief that has long shaped how we think about AI at micro1.As a hum...
08/18/2026

Last week, we gathered at Filoli Gardens to share a belief that has long shaped how we think about AI at micro1.

As a human-first AI company, we believe in the essential role of human brilliance and our responsibility to build technology around people. There’s a common assumption that as AI improves, humans get written out of the story. We believe the opposite: as AI evolves, the human role expands.

Our panel brought that belief to life. Ali Ansari (founder and CEO, micro1), Aaron Levie (CEO, Box), and Jack Monas (AI researcher, 1X) explored what the human role looks like in the models we train, the companies we run, and the world we move through.

Thank you to our team, customers, partners, and everyone across the AI community who joined us. More to come soon!

07/10/2026

For years, the conversation around AI has been about humans being replaced. We’re actually starting to see the opposite.

As models become more capable, human expertise becomes more valuable, not less. Coding is already proving that, and we believe we’ll see the same pattern across every domain where judgment matters.

Human brilliance is in fact, needed more than ever.

Introducing Prospera: a benchmark that tests AI agents on real federal tax returns, designed by our research team in col...
04/10/2026

Introducing Prospera: a benchmark that tests AI agents on real federal tax returns, designed by our research team in collaboration with CPAs and industry-leading tax professionals.

A complete federal return requires dozens of source documents, hundreds of interdependent calculations, and no room for errors. We evaluated GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro with no hints on which forms to file, scored against 20+ expert-authored criteria per return.

Here’s the Results (Pass@3):

-GPT-5.4: 48%
-Claude Opus 4.6: 28%
-Gemini 3.1 Pro: 28%

To put those numbers in context, the tasks in Prospera weren't obscure edge cases. Filing a federal tax return is something millions of Americans do every year, yet 44% of evaluation criteria failed across all models.

Full report here: https://www.micro1.ai/benchmark/prospera

03/30/2026

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