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Alex Zhang says he must be careful about which problems he invests time in because a different solution or a new model might emerge within six months and work much better for a problem.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

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“yeah i mean to me like also this aspect of like what is worth”
“spending and betting my time on now because like maybe i spent a lot of time on this problem and then like in six months like a different solution kind of like maybe a new model comes out and it's like oh it's way better for this and so i do have to be careful i like you know you have to be conscious about like where you think things might be going um so yeah”
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