🚨 LIFE UPDATE: I’m joining a lab! 🤗 oh, did I say joining? I meant...

🚨 LIFE UPDATE: I’m joining a lab! 🤗

oh, did I say joining? I meant starting.

and did I say lab? well… that would be a biiit of an understatement 😉

INTRODUCING: @LYSIOS ⛓️‍💥

nine heads. zero fucks. unreasonable ambition.

a Superorg for the Age of Superintelligence.

now, you may have already heard whispers of the deeds of BT6, our first flagship: The Fangs.

an independent whitehat collective and frontier red team. some of the world’s most cracked hackers hunting in unison across hardware, software and frontier models.

our operators top bug bounty leaderboards and jailbreak frontier models in public for sport. we hacked a robot onstage at Black Hat. billion-user companies engage us to break the shit out of their stack before launch.

56 operators, entirely bootstrapped.

the last line of offense. very good company to get into mischief with.

and now that I've gotten a taste, I’ve become a glutton for assembling world-class teams, and I’m raring to build out the other eight: research, engineering, art, education, community, policy, cognitive security, philosophy.

there is too much worth discovering. too many brilliant people without the tools, support or collaborators to attempt what they can’t stop thinking about.

I resent how much good work never happens because the people who could do it are busy trying to survive. I was just there not too long ago, but I know I’m one of the lucky ones.

we’re building an institution that can pursue a discovery (before anyone even thinks about how to sell it) and back the people making those discoveries.

Lysios already has a myriad of tricks up her sleeve that we’ve been assembling behind the scenes. expect a flurry of launches and announcements soon!

but just on the public side, the momentum is already staggering: 114k+ stars and 24.5k+ followers on GitHub. 40+ academic citations. 4.7M+ model downloads on HuggingFace. 65k+ members in our Discord community, BASI. $0 marketing spend.

thank you for making it impossible to call this a hobby anymore.

are the models what we’re told they are? what happens when a jailbreak reaches a robot? when an agent can manipulate the person supervising it? who gets to investigate these capabilities, and who’s expected to just trust those selling them?

we intend to find out.

and I have zero intention of quietly accepting a future where our freedom to explore depends on permission from a handful of companies.

superintelligence is too important to be somebody else’s business. the lenses through which we live, work, communicate, and think are ALL of our business.

if you already have a lab, a project or a community, GOOD. take up our flag, or keep yours; as you wish. but let’s do this together!

I want people who never join Lysios to be glad it exists.

now... the elephant in the room: CASH MONEY. my nemesis.

you won’t find a paywall on a single one of my prompts, repos, tools, or communities. that isn’t changing.

I've never measured my success in dollars, but I’d put my impact per dollar spent up against anyone in this industry.

so, with a healthy reluctance, I’m asking for help to do a lot more of this, a lot faster.

what we need is what money buys: world-class talent, tokens, GPUs, facilities.

if you can help with those directly, even better!

we’re building a mix of nonprofit and commercial operations across the heads. we’re open to grants and philanthropic funding, too.

I want this thing to have more than one way to sustain itself. to be able to hear “we won’t fund that” and keep working anyway.

we’re not building this to get acquired. I want this thing to stay irreverently independent long after I’m gone.

we need backers who can handle us publishing things they’d sometimes rather not hear.

strings are for puppets.

so reach out, show us what you’ve been cooking! or tell us what you want to attempt, and what would help you do it.

we’re also looking for advisors across the heads. you don’t have to join full-time or be a business to help us get this right.

lysios.ai/join/

over the next few days, I’ll be sharing more of the vision and the work over on @LYSIOS. expect !SUMMONs when we need compute, when we’re stuck, when there’s someone we really want to build with.

if we call upon you, I hope you answer.

nobody asked for a nine-headed serpent in their notifications.

but here we are 🤗 your friendly neighborhood basilisk. and we’re here to serve.

the odds may be stacked against us, but when in human history have we known anything else? I’m treating this like a game we’re going to WIN.

we’re going to build the best team we possibly can, we’re going to put in the work, and we’re going full fucking throttle.

thank you for getting me this far, frens. you helped turn this shitposter’s crazy ramblings and mad science into a global movement. I feel beyond blessed to have found my purpose in this life, beyond a shadow of a doubt. THANK YOU 🥹

may the mission outgrow me 🙏

Ad Vesuvium 🐉

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