A standing series
Long-form profiles of the operators at the frontier-lab tier — the people whose decisions, taken patiently over years, shape what the cycle eventually has to report on.
2 entries so far · ongoing
Entries in the series
Part 1 · Profile
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.
Part 2 · Profile
Before the protein folding, before the Nobel, before DeepMind itself, there was a decade of game design that almost no one in the AI field has actually sat with. A long look at the years that produced the operator who would, much later, become the operator.