Coordinal: A Postmortem. by Ronak Mehta

cart;horse: Most star­tups fail, this one did too. Tried too much with too lit­tle, with a lit­tle too much ego.Co­or­di­nal Re­search’s goal was to build an au­to­mated safety re­search plat­form. A re­searcher writes “Repli­cate X re­sult from pa­per Y with tweak Z” and the sys­tem pro­vi­sions a sand­boxed com­pute en­vi­ron­ment, gath­ers con­text, writes code, runs ex­per­i­ments, and re­turns a re­search re­port plus over­sight trail.The bet was that AI-ac­cel­er­ated re­search is com­ing ...