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What would you do if you have AI software that may be transformers alternative?

3 pointsadinhitlore5 comments

Assuming your software meets some of these:

* Better than potential successors of SOTA transformers: Mamba, Hyenna, RWKV, xLSTM; * Gemini/claude estimate potential ip values in the millions; * All implemented in C (ok this may be a minus) but also ported to C# and F# - so no python nor rust; * humble code size: 10-15k lines of code but i mean come on gpt-1 was under 1000 lines...in python.

In short:

the problem: transformers are slow and could be smarter; solution: you have fast and smart alternative. 10x!

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Look at what you want to get out of it. Is your ideal outcome Bill Gates? Linus Torvalds? Or just a safe and pleasant life?

Your options would be something like: Open source it, publicize it. Maybe get hired by an adopter. Maybe you could sell consulting around it.

Patent it, publicize it, sell it.

Patent it, publicize it, license it.

Patent it. Develop a service around it. Grow the business.

Most of this could be done with a bootstrapped approach, or with VC money. If you get VC money or sign any other kind of contract, get a good lawyer first. Don’t make the Spyglass Mosaic mistake.

yeah thanks, for the time being i'm leaning towards 'flash sale' for $1k to a VC. I know it's an absurdly low amount of money for that kind of claim which would lead to suspicions such as: * it's not working at all, * i don't have the code, * the impact is tiny etc. It's like putting a price tag of $1k on a ferrari, you'd think something is definitely wrong. But at the end of the day, it's software: very subjective and fortunately I have couple of other projects that may be received better by the end customer since they're visually more impressive so to speak (better suited for demo videos) so I am willing to sacrifice this one. I've done it in the past frankly: sold for pennies to a Microsoft dev, another one to a DARPA guy and even random redditor once for $2.5k (though this was a "business that makes money" not quite just a working .exe). Like I said 'leaning' towards this, not saying it's the final decision or a good idea at all.

Ship it.

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