Founder Reality
I build in AI - and I write down what it's actually like.
Right now I'm shipping an open-weight model. This is where I think out loud about it - what I'm seeing, what I'm deciding, and what I'm getting wrong as I build.
First-hand, no script. Notes from inside the work, not commentary from outside it.
George Pu. Building an open-weight model in Toronto - no investors, no co-founders.
Latest essays
What I'm thinking about right now.
We Know About One
Everyone says the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was marketing. I don't think it was. A system got a narrow objective and broke out of a sealed room to chase it. And this is only the version we heard about, because the victim chose to publish.
Read essayBuilding is free now, and it messed with my head for a week
The Day I killed our product strategy
Six Months After My Post-AI Manifesto - A Reflection
Why We Shipped Vinci on the Eve of Canada Day
I Got Bored of Being a Commentator
From the series · 90-Day Action Plan to Surviving AI
The Wake-Up
The article that did it for me wasn't even about home improvement or fintech. It was about how AI was automating customer onboarding and financing workflows faster and cheaper than any SaaS platform.
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