Answer.AI - A new old kind of R&D lab

Jeremy Howard and Eric Ries launched Answer.AI, a new AI R&D lab that aims to create practical end-user products based on foundational research breakthroughs. The lab has USD10m in investment from Decibel VC and will be a fully remote team of deep-tech generalists. Howard says it will use existing foundation models rather than build AGI, with Answer.AI doing original research into fine-tuning smaller models and reducing constraints on wider AI use. The article frames the lab as a modern version of Thomas Edison's 1876 Invention Lab, which later became General Electric.