🎙️A Fight Worth Having: The Case for Open Source AI
Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian on when open source AI beats Claude and OpenAI APIs, when it doesn't, and how company maturity (not size) decides the switch.
Inside MiniMax: Testing if AGI is Possible Without Infinite VC Money
MiniMax bet on multimodality in 2021, went public at 109% surge, and chose consumers over enterprise. Inside China's AI tiger testing AGI without VC subsidy.
DeepSeek mHC: Breaking the Architectural Limits of Deep Learning
DeepSeek's mHC fixes 3000× signal amplification in 27B models by constraining residual streams to the Birkhoff Polytope — with only 6.7% training overhead.
9 best AI books for 2025–2026: from NVIDIA's rise and chip wars to AGI frameworks and the geopolitics of tech. A curated reading list for serious AI practitioners.