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They frame the Anti Fund as an 'attention fund' that leverages viral influence to gain deal flow and support founders building civilization-level companies. 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He identifies four key bottlenecks to AI progress: context feedback, compute, capital, and culture\u2014with culture being the most critical, as it enables algorithmic innovation. Midha shares how his lab, Periodic Labs, uses physical robots and real-world validation to close feedback loops and train models on proprietary scientific data inaccessible on the public internet."}], "category_breakdown": [{"category": "markets_tech", "count": 3}, {"category": "ai", "count": 1}]}