How does yours perform on SWE-Bench?
One of the reasons why they get the attention is they publish.
Publish something similar to this,
and you’ll get more attention.
Also, having an established track record helps to elevate you above the fray.
To be clear, I’m not saying great things can’t come from outsiders, just that outsiders lack the credibility that comes with being a large outfit with several PhDs on staff.
It’s the same reason why a random paper on arxiv claiming some breakthrough on twin primes doesn’t make the news the same way it does when Terrance Tao writes something about it.
Statistically speaking, you are less likely to find anything of value after reading a million random papers on twin primes from amateur outsiders than you are to find nothing of value in a blog post about twin primes from Tao.
The nice thing is, as an outsider, it’s relatively easy to establish credibility—Publish.
Publish your sources, code, and results so anyone can run a Python notebook and replicate your results.
Is it unfair that larger, more established outfits can just report results? Yeah, it is, but that’s because they have already established credibility.
Do that enough and you’ll have established credibility, then people will pay attention when you claim to have something.