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The Core Claim Pretrained multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can serve as effective reward functions for improving text-to-image generation without any training or…
The AI Revolution in Voice and Law: Two Trillion-Dollar Industries Being Remade AI isn't just improving existing industries—it's collapsing entire business models. Two founders on…
The Problem: LLM Agents Get Stuck in Bad Habits When multiple large language model (LLM) agents work together, they should explore different ways of interacting to find what works…
The Coming Duopoly: Why Frontier AI Models Will Dominate Despite Open-Source Competition The race to build artificial general intelligence has resolved into a clear two-horse…
The Problem: Video AI Can Answer Questions, But Nobody Knows Why Current video understanding systems—called Video Large Language Models—can answer questions about video content,…
Einstein's Central Insight: How Gravity Becomes Geometry Einstein's theory of general relativity stands as perhaps the most beautiful intellectual achievement in physics history.…
The Problem: Language Models Make Cultural Mistakes in Moral Judgment Language models are now deployed to make ethical decisions—from content moderation to loan…
Open Source Prevails, AGI Has Arrived, and AI Becomes Creative Infrastructure The age of massive computing buildout has arrived, and with it comes a fundamental shift in how…
The Core Claim Foundation models trained on vast internet image and video data are powerful but struggle with embodied AI—generating robot-manipulable scenes that maintain…
AI Sovereignty Is Now a Business Imperative The frontier AI labs have made a strategic error that may fracture their business models. By treating their enterprise customers as…
The Core Achievement EgoSteer demonstrates that dexterous robot hands can follow free-form language instructions reliably—a capability that has eluded the field. The system scales…
The Roman Empire That Never Fell: Why 1,200 Years of Stability Tell Us What Works The Eastern Roman Empire—what historians tediously call the "Byzantine Empire"—endured for over a…