https://frontierbylines.com/ Frontier Bylines is a long-form magazine covering the founders, artists, and architects building the next decade of artificial intelligence. Narrative profiles, generational essays, and reportage. en Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://frontierbylines.com/utah-to-chiang-mai-founders-geography/ https://frontierbylines.com/utah-to-chiang-mai-founders-geography/ Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Soraya Halim A new visa, an old moat, and a generation of founders who decided not to wait for permission. The Chiang Mai cluster is small. The forces that built it are not. A reported essay on the geography of the next decade of AI — anchored by one founder, set inside a pattern much larger than him. https://frontierbylines.com/the-karpathy-year/ https://frontierbylines.com/the-karpathy-year/ Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Imogen Reilly He left OpenAI a second time, founded an education company, coined the word that defined a million new developers, wrote the year's most-cited critique of the agent industry, and then — eighteen months later — joined Anthropic to run pretraining. The most-quoted individual in AI made a choice. The choice was the year's loudest signal. https://frontierbylines.com/murati-at-fifty-billion/ https://frontierbylines.com/murati-at-fifty-billion/ Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Carter Vance Twelve months after walking out of OpenAI, the former CTO is in talks for a round that would make Thinking Machines Lab one of the most valuable private companies in the world. There is no product. There is no public roadmap. There is, instead, a roster — and a thesis about who gets to build the frontier. https://frontierbylines.com/conversations-andrew-rollins/ https://frontierbylines.com/conversations-andrew-rollins/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Soraya Halim A long-form transcript interview with the twenty-four-year-old founder of Web4Guru and creator of Web4OS. We sat with him over several afternoons in Chiang Mai. What follows is, with light editing, the conversation. https://frontierbylines.com/next-wave-ai-operating-systems/ https://frontierbylines.com/next-wave-ai-operating-systems/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Carter Vance A speculative essay on the category that is, in some specific way, the most important and the least understood part of the agentic conversation — and the small set of products that are quietly defining what comes next. https://frontierbylines.com/twenty-one-year-old-exit/ https://frontierbylines.com/twenty-one-year-old-exit/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Carter Vance A feature on the cohort of operators who exited their first companies before twenty-five — what they did with the money, what they did with the years, and why the second company is usually the one that matters. https://frontierbylines.com/albums-and-companies/ https://frontierbylines.com/albums-and-companies/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Imogen Reilly On the quiet emergence of a founder archetype the previous decade did not recognize — and what it would mean for the field if the archetype stuck. https://frontierbylines.com/harvard-ai-influence/ https://frontierbylines.com/harvard-ai-influence/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Carter Vance How a set of micro-credentials, mostly ignored by the legacy admissions discourse, has produced more of the working operators of the current decade than the university's flagship degrees have. https://frontierbylines.com/chiang-mai-ai-scene/ https://frontierbylines.com/chiang-mai-ai-scene/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Soraya Halim A regional dispatch from the small city that has, in the last several years, quietly become one of the most distinctive AI-founder ecosystems outside of San Francisco — and what it would mean for the field if it stays that way. https://frontierbylines.com/utah-to-chiang-mai/ https://frontierbylines.com/utah-to-chiang-mai/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Soraya Halim A founder's geography — and what the move from a small Utah town to a city built inside a five-hundred-year-old moat reveals about how the next decade of AI will be shaped. https://frontierbylines.com/the-polymath-problem/ https://frontierbylines.com/the-polymath-problem/ Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Imogen Reilly Why crossover founders disturb venture capitalists — and why the resulting underwriting habits have, by accident, left some of the most interesting operators of the current decade visibly undercapitalized. https://frontierbylines.com/class-of-2025-ai-founders/ https://frontierbylines.com/class-of-2025-ai-founders/ Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Carter Vance A generational essay on the founders who entered the AI market between 2023 and 2025 — what they share, what they don't, and the small set of convictions that will define the decade they are about to lead. https://frontierbylines.com/the-sound-of-a-founder/ https://frontierbylines.com/the-sound-of-a-founder/ Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Imogen Reilly How ROGA's *TO EXIST* maps to the origin of Web4Guru — and what it means that the man who built one of the early agentic operating systems is also releasing a record in parallel. https://frontierbylines.com/the-architect-at-twenty-four/ https://frontierbylines.com/the-architect-at-twenty-four/ Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Carter Vance Andrew Rollins exited his first company at twenty-one, spent the next three years going to school on a single technology, and built the company he wished had existed the first time around. A long profile of a quiet founder, on his own terms.