About Us
Semo is a Tokyo-based applied research lab. We co-research with frontier AI labs to find where models fail to understand humans, and build the data, benchmarks and evaluations that fix it.
Founded by University of Tokyo alumni, we pair research with production-scale data infrastructure, so a finding doesn't stop at a report — it becomes data a model can learn from.
Tokyo
Headquarters
Frontier AI Labs
Co-Research Partners
30+
Languages
UTokyo
Founding Team Alumni
Approach
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Co-research with frontier AI labs to locate where models fail to understand humans — what people mean, how they speak, how they act.
02
Targeted data that closes the gaps we find, across speech, vision, video and physical interaction.
03
Benchmarks that turn each gap into something measurable, so progress is tracked rather than assumed.
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Held-out evaluations with baselines, showing whether a fix actually worked.
How We Work
We work with research teams as partners, sharing hypotheses and findings rather than only fulfilling a specification.
Programmes start from a measured gap on an evaluation set. The data mix is designed against that gap.
The team that finds a gap also builds the data to close it, on our own collection, annotation and delivery infrastructure.