💥 Sam Altman launches $6B “Episteme”, a new Bell Labs for the AGI era

Altman co-founded Episteme with 27-year-old prodigy Louis Andre, aiming to fuse AI, physics, biology, and neuroscience under one roof.

• Backed by SoftBank, OpenAI, and billionaire family offices.
• Scientists get $5–20M personal budgets and full freedom for 5–10 years.
• Goal: cut academia’s bureaucracy and spark breakthroughs by young, AI-empowered researchers.

A Manhattan Project for science minus the bomb, plus AGI.

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