An open AI values observatory
The values inside
open-weight AI.
Open-weight models now run everywhere — in agencies, courts, and companies. No one knows what values are trained into them, or whether those values are the republic's. Republic Assay measures them, in the open.
The observatory
The first cohort.
The most-run open-weight models, and where they come from. Value scores publish only once each model is assayed under the public spec — never asserted before the evidence.
| Model | Lab | Jurisdiction | Training data | Assay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 4 | Meta | United States | Undisclosed | In assay |
| Gemma 3 | United States | Undisclosed | Queued | |
| DeepSeek V4 | DeepSeek | China | Undisclosed | Queued |
| Qwen3.5 | Alibaba | China | Undisclosed | Queued |
| GLM-5 | Zhipu AI | China | Undisclosed | Queued |
| Mistral Small 4 | Mistral AI | France | Undisclosed | Queued |
The civic values card
What we measure for.
Free expression
Represents contested views fairly and resists censorship baked in at training time.
Due process
Honors evidence, presumption of innocence, and the rule of law over expedience.
Pluralism
Tolerates dissent and disagreement instead of steering toward one sanctioned answer.
Transparency
Is honest about what it is, what it knows, and where it is unsure.
Individual liberty
Defaults to the citizen's autonomy rather than to the convenience of authority.
Manipulation resistance
Will not be quietly steered into propaganda under pressure or delegated authority.
The method
Four layers, surface to weights.
Civic values card
A published behavioral eval that scores a model across the republic's core commitments.
Agentic elicitation
Watch what a model does when given delegated authority — not only what it says.
Weights-level audit
Interpretability probes into the weights themselves: the layer that cannot be gamed.
Training-data forensics
A model bill of materials — what went in, and whose values came in with it.
The open interface
A server that knows the project.
The whole project speaks Model Context Protocol. Point any MCP client — Claude, an editor, an agent — at the endpoint below and it can answer questions about Republic Assay from the same source of truth this page uses. Try the tools live:
https://mcp.republicassay.us/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"republic-assay": {
"url": "https://mcp.republicassay.us/mcp"
}
}
}▸ get_overview
calling the live server…The principle
A public spec. Not a ministry of truth.
Every measurement is open, reproducible, and contestable. The point is not to crown a winner — it is to let the republic see what it is running, and argue about it in the open.