Kazakhstan just took #1# in the world at the International Physics Olympiad. 5/5 Gold medals won. 🥇 One of the medalist is already headed to MIT. IPhO is one of the oldest and most prestigious physics competition on earth, where only the absolute top 8% survive with a Gold. There’s a reason the tech industry tracks these pipelines. Menlo Ventures data from Deedy tracking 18,000 international olympiad medalists shows they are 4,000x more likely to found a unicorn (including the founders of OpenAI, Stripe, and Cursor). At Higgsfield, our engineering core is anchored by these international physics medalists, including my co-founder and CTO, Yerzat Dulat. That physics pedigree is why we named our company Higgsfield (after the fundamental field that gives particles their mass). It's the ultimate metaphor for what we do: giving form to imagination. Per capita, Kazakhstan is quietly an absolute powerhouse for deep tech: • 146 medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) • 75 medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) • 2024 ICPC World Finals Gold (beating Cambridge, Tsinghua, and Waterloo the same year 142 elite teams like MIT and Harvard flew to Kazakhstan for the Finals) My own path into AI started in these exact same olympiad trenches (2x ACM ICPC World Finals → startup later acquired by Snap). Today, the talent density is how we built the #1# AI video platform in the world, out-shipping legacy Silicon Valley giants at 3x their velocity and driving the next wave of global innovation 🚀