Conviction
One of our favorite parts of the jobs is when founders surprise us with ideas we've never thought about. But, given the time we spend working on and thinking about AI product, we do have some thoughts for where we think important companies might lie and what challenges they'll need to solve. To be clear, we don't think you have to work on any of these ideas to get into Embed or to pitch us. We share them here as a way to show our thinking about where opportunity lies and how we evaluate ideas. We'll continue to update this list as we formalize more of our thinking. Apply to Embed here! The playbook is here, and access to state-of-the-art reasoning models is wide open. Pick a problem, give the model the same tools humans use to get real work done, and optimize for the outcomes you care about. This is scaling to work of surprising complexity. “AGI” is increasingly an operational challenge of bringing tasks under distribution - and many smart teams can do that, not just the labs. If you'r
Conviction PLAUSIBLE SCHEMES One of our favorite parts of the job is when founders surprise us with ideas we've never thought about. But, given the time we spend working on and thinking about AI product, we do have some thoughts for where we think important companies might lie and what challenges they'll need to solve. To be clear, we don't think you have to work on any of these ideas to get into Embed or to pitch us. We share them here as a way to show our thinking about where opportunity lies and how we evaluate ideas. We'll continue to update this list as we formalize more of our thinking.
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