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.
30 Days, Six Products, Two Dead Models, and the Part That Didn't Work
On July 9 we shipped a model my engineering lead trained. On July 12 I took it off the product. Six products in 30 days is the headline. That decision is the story.
Read essayWe Bet the Company on Open Weights. Here's What's Happening to Them.
What a 3-Person Team Actually Pays for AI: July 2026
We Know About One
Building is free now, and it messed with my head for a week
The Day I killed our product strategy
From the series · 90-Day Action Plan to Surviving AI
The Layers
After I inventoried what I had, I needed a way to think about what was actually safe.
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