Nous Research CEO's AI Engineer Keynote: Compete at a Different Layer, 'Build God'
altryne · x · 2026-10-14
Nous Research CEO Dillon Rolnick closed out the AI Engineer NYC keynote day, with slides laying out the company's strategy: "1. Compete at a different layer. 2. Build god" — extending its arc from open-source LLMs to personal agents. A nearby slide asking how to recoup a "centibillion dollar infrastructure and research bet" captured the industry's capex anxiety.
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