Prime Intellect
Applied Research — Forward-Deployed
new $150K–$300K
The rare FDE seat where the deliverable isn't inference but training itself — embed with AI labs and enterprises to design their post-training runs, RL environments, and eval harnesses on Prime Intellect's Lab stack. Backed by Founders Fund with Andrej Karpathy angel'd in; the $150K floor-to-$300K ceiling spread means they'll level you on research chops, not tenure.
San Francisco decentralized AIpost-training / RLfounders fund + karpathy