lossfunk Batch 9 kicks off: agent swarms, cancer drugs, AI sitcoms and more
paraschopra · x · 2026-10-27
Paras Chopra kickstarts Batch 9 of the lossfunk residency with eight deep projects over 6–8 weeks: Vaibhav building an open-source tinygrad pipeline for 3D human avatars from video; Advaith testing Noema, a shareable personal context layer for AI; Adya building benchmarks that distinguish computed vs. memorized LLM answers with mech interp; Sanjeev testing whether AI can produce a genuinely entertaining sitcom episode; Udit piloting a game-based screen for childhood anxiety/ADHD/autism with 30 kids; Jyotiska building Chorus to study AI agent swarm coordination; Ojas creating an open benchmark for AI analog chip design; Amit using AI to design lipid nanoparticles for RNA drug delivery to tumors.
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