The '$16 Build Your AI Lab' meme has X picking 5 researchers from tiered price list
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-11-11
A viral "Build Your AI Lab" meme asks users to spend $16 picking 5 names: $5 tier — Andrej Karpathy, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Demis Hassabis; $4 — Sholto Douglas, roon, Noam Brown, Yann LeCun; $3 — Thibault Sottiaux, Thariq Shihipar, Boris Cherny, Jim Fan; $2 — Aidan McLaughlin, Alex Albert, Logan Kilpatrick, Riley Goodside. Half the fun is the tier-list tradeoffs.
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