Miju Labs
Background
Researcher at Epoch AI before co-founding Mechanize in April 2025 (TNW describes the co-founders as former Epoch researchers). Writes a personal Substack on philosophy, effective altruism, AI, the future and economics.
What they run now
Co-authors Mechanize's public thesis; operating title and scope not published.
Career
- 2025 – presentCo-founder, Mechanize
- 2025Researcher, Epoch AI
On the record
Co-wrote that cheap contractor-labelled data is over: progress now needs interactive environments built by full-time domain specialists whose tacit knowledge is the bottleneck. source
Co-wrote that labs should spend more per RL task (then ~$500, expected to rise to several thousand) because cheap tasks waste expensive compute; data and compute are complements. source
Co-signed the founding statement: build environments and evals to enable full automation of the economy, sizing the prize at ~$18T/yr US wages and ~$60T globally. source