Researcher trains open-source Laya overnight after $40M startup ships his published idea
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-09-25
Researcher Sudhi Sachdeva shares a dramatic story: a Silicon Valley startup raised $40M and launched a decision model built on nearly the same idea he'd published a year earlier. After his Reddit post with paper and GitHub blew up, users asked for a model to beat the Jev benchmarks — so he trained one in 12-15 hours while traveling and released Laya the next morning: open source, free to self-host, and #1 trending on Hugging Face.
Full interview on AIM Network's FrontPage (YouTube).
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