From Lab to Launch: Researchers On Agentic Frontiers

By South Park Commons

Categories: Startup, VC

Summary

Meta AI lead Sam left after 11 years to start a new venture, Thinking Machines, demonstrating the shift from open source to more proprietary AI models. Curser is hiring in NYC with the goal of democratizing access to advanced AI technology.

Key Takeaways

1. Leverage open source frameworks like PyTorch to accelerate AI research and development.
2. Participate in the scientific community by contributing to open source projects and publishing research.
3. Explore opportunities at growing AI startups like Thinking Machines that are pushing the boundaries of proprietary models.
4. Apply to Curser's New York office, which is actively hiring to democratize access to advanced AI capabilities.
5. Seek out equity-free opportunities at South Park Commons to explore hard technical problems with a community of researchers and engineers.
6. Leverage accessible AI technologies, not just open source, to drive innovation and democratize knowledge.

Topics

• AI Startups
• Open Source AI
• AI Democratization
• Tech Community
• AI Research

Transcript Excerpt

Everyone, welcome to South Park Commons, New York. Um, I'm briefly going to explain SPC and then we're going to hand this over. Uh, SBC's been around in the Bay for 10 years as a home for technologists to come together and explore the frontiers, the hardest problems. Uh, we now have space in New York and Bangalore as well. Our community is equity free if you want to quit your job and explore hard technical problems. I was going to try to get Summith to do that but who's only unemployed for a cou...