AI Research Posts

7 Free RAG Courses in 2026: Agentic, Multimodal & Production

7 free RAG courses for 2026: LangChain, LlamaIndex, knowledge graphs, agentic RAG, multimodal RAG, and production systems from DeepLearning.AI & Google

🎙️ Will Open Models Catch Up? Nathan Lambert on Open vs Closed AI Models

Nathan Lambert of Ai2 and Interconnects explains why open models may remain behind closed frontier AI, where they can compete, and why they matter for US AI strategy.

AI 101: Conditional Memory and the Rise of Selective Intelligence

Engram by DeepSeek gives LLMs conditional memory: models learn when to access knowledge. Covers architecture, U-shaped allocation law, and reasoning gains.

How to Stop Agent Mistakes: Custom Policies for Real-Time AI Governance 🛡️

FOD#138: Why Moltbook Is Blowing Everyone’s Minds, Even Though Agentic Social Networks Aren’t New

Going deeper into the world of AI agents talking (nonsense) to each other

13 Foundational Types of AI Models

What are the types of LLM models? Compare LLM, SLM, RLM, VLM, MLLM, VLA, LAM, MoE, SSM, RNN, CNN, SAM and LNN with examples and key differences.

🎙️Inside MiniMax AI: How a Chinese AI Lab Builds Open Models

MiniMax senior researcher Olive Song on RL training failures, open-weight model strategy, alignment, and how Chinese AI labs actually move fast

What is Hybrid AI?

Hybrid AI splits intelligence between local devices and the cloud. Learn how it works, why pure AI fails, and how Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung use it.

FOD#137: From Model-Centric to Systems-Level Thinking About Agents

How agentic AI shifts toward memory management, tool control, and system-level discipline

🎙️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.

FOD#136: The Agent Stack Is Becoming Real Software

how research proves that the next phase of agentic AI is about memory, tools, and systems discipline, not smarter prompts

9 Notable Advancements in Robotics that We Can't Miss

9 recent robotics advances: Atlas, NVIDIA physical AI, XPeng IRON, Aletta & AI exoskeletons. Covers humanoid, industrial & autonomous robots from Jan 2026.