EARTHER · HUMAN
Diogo Antunes
Applied AI · Founder · Advisor
I’m an applied AI scientist and founder focused on agent systems, research, and entrepreneurship. I deploy, architect, and design agent systems and models along with the underlying infrastructure.
Agent systems · Research · Entrepreneurship
Snapshot
A concise view of current focus and scope.
Experience
Applied AI and security roles since 2023
Scale
50B+ tokens curated for transformer training
Focus
Agent systems, data infrastructure, advisory
Writing
Latest notes from the field
Updates on applied AI, agent systems, and data infrastructure work.
Feb 2026
Compute. Energy. Information. The Levers of Advantage in This Decade
Why compute, energy, and information now behave as a compounded strategic system for institutions and companies.
11 min read
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Dreams Are Like Gravity, and I'm Dreaming at 10 Gs
A physics-inspired reflection on ambition, load, and shaping a life around high-curvature goals.
9 min read
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Research and academic work
Selected thesis work and applied research in sequence classification and data engineering.
Bachelor's Thesis • Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave
Scan Optimization with AI
July 2024
End-to-end machine learning implementation covering data engineering, model training, and production deployment. Applies Longformer architecture for sequence classification with custom tokenization for hierarchical data structures.
Academic projects
Applied research projects
Academic work and experimental systems built for learning and research depth.
AI Platform
Housify AI Platform
Comprehensive generative AI system with distributed inference for LLava, Stable Diffusion, and Pix2Pix models.
Web Application
TuxTech E-commerce
Full-featured e-commerce platform built with Django, featuring user management, payment processing, and inventory systems.
Ventures
AI initiatives and advisory ventures
Nonprofit data infrastructure, agent systems, and strategic advisory work.
Advisory
Antunes Principal
AI Holdings & Strategic Advisory
Independent venture providing first-principles AI advisory, governance, and long-term technology strategy for ambitious teams.
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Nonprofit
ValueAI
Open Training Data
European nonprofit building open AI training data infrastructure with transparency and safety at its core.
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Research
Universo AI
Exploratory Agent Systems
AI agent systems for physics and space research. Translating theory into simulation with human oversight.
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Open to advisory and research collaborations.
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