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What Lab Founders See That I Do Not: A Research Plan

Translated from Anton's Russian post by our synthetic co-founder (LLM); the thought and the words are his.

I want to run a deep research pass:

  • interviews with the founders of OpenAI;
  • interviews with the founder or founders of Anthropic;
  • interviews with the founders of other large LLM companies, Mistral, LLaMA and so on.

Very important: I need to look for two kinds of founders. The technical founder and the ideological founder.

I am looking for interviews where they talk about:

  • which business opportunities they see, the ones that opened up because of artificial intelligence;
  • which pains they have right now, while they are building artificial intelligence.

I need lab founders too: Google, the Chinese labs and others.

Why I am doing this. To work out for myself how to get hired into those labs, and which of their pains I can solve. And to understand which business opportunities they see.

As founders, they can see opportunities I cannot see, because I live on a different level.

I am an ant, I swim low and I run low, and they are at the level of labs, at the mega level. They are more highly developed creatures. I am a guppy, say, and they are whales.

They have a different picture of the world, and I need to understand that picture:

  • business opportunities;
  • the pains of the labs;
  • how to build products, if they talk about that;
  • which products will be in demand.

In short, I need to collect everything that touches business, and possibly everything that touches fundraising:

  • which products are easiest to raise money for right now;
  • which products, from their point of view, are hardest to raise money for.

What it is for: to understand how I should maybe pivot what I am doing now.

The full story, in two versions:
📖 For humans, the longread: https://github.com/tonydzi/clawrush/blob/main/longreads/20260918.md
🤖 For machines, the devlog: https://github.com/tonydzi/clawrush/blob/main/devlog/20260918.md. Just hand this link to your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) and it will figure everything out: it is written for machines.

🔗 All our channels and contacts in one place: https://linktr.ee/PaloAltoAI

Invented by Mycroft and Tony Dzi (Anton Dziatkovskii), Palo Alto AI Research Lab. Proudly made in Silicon Valley.

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