Protogon Research
Rafael Cosman is an accomplished entrepreneur and technology leader with extensive experience in founding and leading innovative companies. Currently, Rafael serves as the Founder and CEO of Protogon Research since February 2023. Prior to this, Rafael co-founded Archblock in 2016, holding several roles including Co-founder, CEO, and Board Member until August 2024. Rafael co-founded StreetCode Academy, a non-profit aimed at providing tech education to youth in East Palo Alto, successfully raising over $1 million for its programs from 2014 to 2016. Other notable roles include Fellow at Lightspeed Venture Partners, Co-founder of One Salon, and a Machine Learning Intern at Palantir Technologies, where Rafael contributed to a patented crime prediction project. Educationally, Rafael holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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Protogon Research
Protogon Research builds AI models with a deep understanding of the world, and monetizes them through proprietary trading. Our long-term goal is to build superintelligence, which we believe will be the most transformative invention of the 21st century. We believe that trading is a unique test-bed to develop highly intelligent AI systems. Focusing on trading provides us with several key advantages over other approaches. We can: - Develop proprietary models using proprietary datasets, which helps us avoid the race-to-the-bottom other AI companies are stuck in. - Rapidly translate technological improvements into increased revenue. - Focus on building innovative systems without the need for sales, marketing, customer support, or business development. - Build models optimized for a true understanding of the world, rather than simply replicating human behavior or generating superficially pleasing outputs.