Surplus Incubator Recruiting: Focus on AI Software Projects
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-07-11
Software incubator Surplus announced that today is the final day of its current recruitment cycle. The program has already admitted 8 founders and plans to recruit about 8 more. The directions of the selected projects are highly exploratory, including:
- A "Consumer Reports for AI model behavior"
- "Artificial societies" for economic experiments
- "Git for context" (context management)
- AI systems that actively learn user preferences
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