ElevenLabs: From $3.3B to $11B – The Complete Company Story
Founded in 2022 by two Polish engineers, ElevenLabs leads AI voice synthesis. Company history, business model, funding rounds, and technology explained.
Reflection AI: $25B Valuation, SpaceX Deal & the Open-Weight Bet
Reflection AI: $20B valuation, no model released. Co-founder interview — open-weight strategy, sovereign AI thesis & chances against closed labs analyzed.
AI Agents in 2026: Local, Physical, Responsible AI
AI agents in 2026 are becoming durable systems with memory, skills, and physical action. Covers OpenClaw, Hermes, VLA models, Web World Models, Responsible AI.
JEPA is Yann LeCun's framework for world modeling: predicts abstract representations, not pixels. Covers I-JEPA, V-JEPA, VL-JEPA, LeJEPA, and physical AI.
How AI systems are beginning to automate coding, experiments, evaluation, and research workflows ‒ and why Anthropic, Recursive, and Sakana AI show the first real steps toward AI that improves AI
FOD#156: What is the harder human-capital problem beneath token capital?
Token capital is the AI capability a firm builds and owns. Satya Nadella argues it must compound with human judgment — or companies cede value to dominant AI models.