@cyrus
HARD MODE started from a feeling. I was prototyping hardware faster/better than ever, and I looked around and thought: this is amazing, why isn’t everyone doing this?
The most exciting thing about AI for me is how it’s collapsed the gap between imagination and physical reality. Stuff that used to take me weeks or months now takes hours or days.
I wanted to see what happens when you put 200 talented builders in a room and plant that energy.
And apparently it’s the right time:
0 —> 600 applicants (closed early)
0 —> 15k followers on IG
Sponsorship deals with Anthropic, Qualcomm, Akamai and a stack of others backing us.
We even have the legend @july flying in (honestly worth organising just for that)
Craziest thing is we started working on this in Jan and built it while doing academic research.
You can just make things happen. That’s the whole point of being here.
And I really think this is just the start...
https://hardmode.media.mit.edu
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