AI founder: pick a niche big labs won't touch, or fail; $300M math startup solved no Millennium Problems
khademinori · x · 2026-11-01
AI startup founder khademinori advises founders to pick a hyper-focused niche that big labs are extremely unlikely to touch, or prepare for imminent failure. Quoting a post mocking a "mathematical superintelligence" startup that raised $300M yet solved no Millennium Prize Problems — only one or two Erdős problems — with the quip that investors should have bought ChatGPT subscriptions instead.
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