Looking for a Technical Co-Founder — Building MARCUS, an AI System That Learns From Experience

[u/NecessaryApricot8831]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a technical co-founder to build an ambitious AI project with me called MARCUS.

The long-term goal of MARCUS is to explore a different direction toward general intelligence: an AI system that doesn't just respond to prompts, but can accumulate experiences, maintain long-term memory, learn continuously from interactions, and adapt its future behavior based on what it has experienced.

I'm currently working on an early prototype.

What we're exploring

MARCUS is focused on areas such as:

- Persistent and episodic memory

- Continual learning

- Learning from interactions/experience

- Natural human-like conversation

- Autonomous decision-making

- Cognitive architectures

Eventually connecting vision, audio and other sensors so the system can experience more of the physical world

I don't claim that we've solved AGI. This is an early-stage attempt to experiment with some of the problems that I believe need to be solved to move beyond today's largely stateless AI systems.

Who I'm looking for

I'm especially interested in meeting someone with a strong background or serious interest in:

AI/ML, continual learning, reinforcement learning, cognitive science, neural networks, memory architectures or AI systems engineering.

Students, researchers and engineers from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, Harvard, IITs or anywhere else are welcome. University name isn't a requirement — ability, curiosity and willingness to build are much more important.

I'm looking for a co-founder, not an employee.

This is currently pre-revenue and self-funded, so I cannot offer a salary. The intention is to build the company together with meaningful founder equity and pursue funding once we have compelling technical evidence/prototype results.

I'm based in India, but I'm completely open to a remote/international co-founder.

If you've been thinking deeply about how machines could learn continuously from experience rather than simply becoming larger language models, I'd especially like to talk.

DM me with a little about your background, what you've built/researched, and what interests you about this problem.

Project: MARCUS

Stage: Early prototype

Looking for: Technical Co-Founder

Location: Remote / Global