Did Your Research Budget Get Musked?

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The anxiety of waiting for grant money is at an all-time high in 2025. As a PhD candidate and government contractor, I feel it, too. After all this financial and time investment, I wondered if my research would end unexpectedly. 

I stayed up all night wondering how I'd pay for everything I needed to keep Jaxorik running.

I watched in horror as datasets disappeared off the internet, frantically downloading as much as I could. I went to Best Buy and bought almost 100 TB of hard drive space to keep downloading everything I thought could ever be important to my research one day. 

Then, I moved on to figuring out how I could help other researchers. What datasets might they need one day? And how could I make AI cheaper and easier for them?

With traditional research funding models under the strain of administrative overheads, data-heavy tasks, and the growing need for compute and hard drive space, the need for alternative funding sources poses significant challenges. 

So, I am taking a new data science approach requiring fewer resources.

✔️ Fewer GPUs

✔️ Less time training models

✔️ Less electricity

✔️ Less data processing time

Because I can keep my costs low, I can help researchers even better than before. Unlike the expensive, already-built black box models, I can collaborate with you at cost if your research aligns with Jaxorik's mission.

Algorithms can analyze massive amounts of data even faster than overworked grad students. Even the most compute-heavy deep learning algorithms work faster than humans, but my team of researchers uses novel AI techniques to cut hours out of the time it takes a regular deep learning algorithm to train. 

Now, you might think about how deep learning can be expensive, computer-wise. Of course, we agree. We have novel approaches to neural networks that cut down on resources depending on the project. 

Unstructured data (images, sound, text, etc.) is the most expensive to process, but it's getting cheaper by the second to build and use an AI model. I'll tell you more about it, but first, let me introduce myself.