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Long-form narrative profiles. Frontier Bylines profiles are built around several long sittings with a subject who has agreed to the time, supplemented by interviews with people in the subject's orbit. They run between three and five thousand words, sometimes longer when the work earns it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Before the OpenAI of the post-ChatGPT era, before the board firing, before the trillion-dollar conversation, there was a decade of much smaller decisions. A reported essay on the Loopt years, the Y Combinator years, and the operator the public conversation has stopped trying to remember.
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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.
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