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Delphi recently hosted a live text-based AMA on Telegram with Teknium, Co-Founder and Head of Post-Training at Nous Research. The conversation was moderated by Tommy Shaughnessy and featured questions from the Ex-Machina Telegram Group Chat.
While GenAI has taken venture investing and the public markets by storm since late 2022, it is now also quietly infiltrating private equity. The typical rollup playbook is now being infused with AI – revamping operations in traditional businesses by leveraging the rapidly evolving capabilities. This model has been pioneered in the US but now appears poised to catch on in China.

In the first part of my "Experience Era" series, I covered the jagged intelligence patterns of foundation models and how model training is entering the experience era. With intelligence now abundant thanks to the "general recipe," the bottleneck for unleashing AI's potential has shifted to applications. Part II analyzes this transformation and its profound implications.

Perhaps the most comprehensive overview of today's AI frontier interweaving Data Foundries, Reinforcement Learning, Context Engineering, RL Environments, and World Models into an easily digestible whole

Multimodal medical foundation models are the future of healthcare. We need a DeepSeek-like company to build them — so we founded Sophont to make it a reality.

Browsers are emerging as the ultimate frontend for using AI. Explore how AI browsers like Perplexity Comet, Dia, and others are reshaping our digital experience, triggering a high-stakes battle for control of the web's most critical gateway.

A philosophical exploration of what intelligence truly is—across humans, animals, and machines—arguing that our failure to understand intelligence means we're building powerful AI systems without knowing what we're actually creating.

Humans are visual creatures. The phonetic alphabet has been a core technology of "civilized man" but is alien to our true nature - our tribal evolution.

A striking trend is the rapidly blurring line between AI models and applications. AI startups are achieving remarkable growth—Flowith (formerly GenSpark) reached $10 million Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just nine days.
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