Vol. I · No. 2 · Winter 2025
On the patience of Hassabis and the architecture of Srinivas.
From the editors
The second issue runs two profiles back to back, both of operators who have been quietly building for years without much of the noise that usually attends people doing work of this scale. We open with the long patience of Demis Hassabis's pre-DeepMind game-design period. We follow with the structural rhyme between Aravind Srinivas's public posture and the company he has been building. The issue argues, in the only way a magazine like this can, that the most interesting AI work of the decade is being done by people who do not look like they are trying to be the most interesting people in the room.
Contents
Profile
He is the rare founder of his cohort who actually answers a question. A close read of Perplexity's twenty-nine-year-old chief executive, drawn from the long catalog of stage talks, podcast appearances, and on-the-record interviews he has been generously willing to give.
Profile
She is, by some interesting margin, the least-quoted senior executive at the most-cited research lab of the current cycle. A close look at the company's president, drawn from the small set of public talks and interviews she has actually given, and from the visible architectural decisions inside the company she helps run.