Projects

Projects I’m involved with and areas of interest

Building and leading Prime Intellect: Building open source AGI and commoditizing compute to accelerate scientific progress. Ping me if you’re looking for compute or want to join an open-source AGI effort. (Since late 2023)

Co-created the pop-up city Zuzalu in 2023. (Why I Built Zuzalu – Vitalik Buterin).
Co-initiated Bio in 2022, a science accelerator supporting areas of research like longevity, quantum bio, rare diseases, neuro, long covid, women’s health, synthetic biology, cryopreservation and more.
Led ecosystem and AI at Molecule, a platform for science incubation and funding.
Co-founded VitaDAO in 2021 to fund and incubate translational longevity research (20+ research projects incubated and funded, $10m+ in funding). Initiated and led the Longevity Prize and Longevity Fast Grants Fellowship that supported over 50 fellows.
Helped raise $3M+ in 2023 for reversible brain and organ cryopreservation research (science, projects).
Worked on a concept for a health insurance startup in 2018.
Created existentialrisk.info in 2018.
Studied software engineering, ML, product, design, and science & tech studies at CODE University (2017–2018), building full-stack apps, experimenting with LLMs, and building robots from scratch. Dropped out to pursue startups.
Researched key technologies of the future — AI, biotech/longevity, fusion, and nanotech (translated PDF, original German, slides) in 2014 in school.
As a teen, built websites, interned at startups, and self-taught design, web dev, and investing.