Platonic Research is an AI infrastructure company developing Large Concept Models (LCMs), a new class of models designed to outperform traditional LLMs in efficiency, context length and reasoning capabilities. The company was founded by Marco Eterno, a physicist and machine learning researcher from Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa who previously led the Octopus AI research collaboration, together with Federico Visintini, former CTO at Olivia where he built machine learning systems powering revenue-generating products. Platonic Research focuses on the foundational layer of the AI stack, targeting developer tooling and agent infrastructure where model efficiency and reasoning capabilities are critical. By advancing model architecture rather than building applications on top of existing models, the company aims to enable the next generation of AI systems and developer platforms in the broader generative AI market, expected to reach $1.3T by 2032.
