Ksenia Se

Mom of 5. Lifelong tech nerd who found her calling connecting dots in AI research. I run Turing Post, turning dense research into accessible stories. 25+ years as journalist and analyst. Co-founded TheSequence.

FOD#139: Living Inside Kardashev’s Head: What Does It Mean For Us?

"Froth on the Daydream"

Feb 9, 2026

FOD#139: Living Inside Kardashev’s Head: What Does It Mean For Us?

We are watching a shift from optimizing architectures to organizing capacity

Ksenia Se

🎙️Nathan Lambert: Open Models Will Never Catch Up

Interviews with Innovators

Feb 7, 2026

🎙️Nathan Lambert: Open Models Will Never Catch Up

And why the US need them even more right now

Ksenia Se

AI 101

Feb 4, 2026

AI 101: Conditional Memory and the Rise of Selective Intelligence

let's explore this new memory paradigm and why it's important as architectural principle

Ksenia Se

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

"Froth on the Daydream"

Feb 2, 2026

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

Ksenia Se

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

Interviews with Innovators

Jan 31, 2026

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

First Western interview with a senior MiniMax researcher. Olive Song explains how they actually build models that work

Ksenia Se

AI 101

Jan 29, 2026

AI 101: What is Hybrid AI?

It’s not about architectural hybrids, it’s about where to run a model. The big promise in connecting devices and clouds for the nearest future of AI.

Alyona Vert., +1

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

"Froth on the Daydream"

Jan 27, 2026

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

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

Ksenia Se

🎙️A Fight Worth Having: The Case for Open Source AI

Interviews with Innovators

Jan 24, 2026

🎙️A Fight Worth Having: The Case for Open Source AI

When to Switch from Claude/OpenAI to Open Models (And When Not To) | Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian

Ksenia Se

AI 101

Jan 21, 2026

AI 101: An Insightful Guide to VLA/VLA+ models

How Microsoft's Rho-alpha, Google's Gemini Robotics, and six other breakthroughs built the bridge from VLA to VLA+ – the complete snapshot of where we are today

Alyona Vert., +1

FOD#136: The Agent Stack Is Becoming Real Software

"Froth on the Daydream"

Jan 20, 2026

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

Ksenia Se

Open Source AI in 2026

Jan 17, 2026

🌐 #1: Mastering Open Source AI in 2026: Essential Decisions for Builders

We start the new series on open source that moved from "catching-up" phase to "specialization and parity" phase

Ksenia Se

AI 101

Jan 14, 2026

AI 101: What are Web World Models?

Princeton’s new recipe for building better world models to support AI agents

Alyona Vert., +1

FOD#135: What It Means When AI Labs Step Into Healthcare

"Froth on the Daydream"

Jan 12, 2026

FOD#135: What It Means When AI Labs Step Into Healthcare

plus robots from CES

Ksenia Se

Inside MiniMax: Testing if AGI is Possible Without Infinite VC Money

GenAI Unicorns

Jan 11, 2026

Inside MiniMax: Testing if AGI is Possible Without Infinite VC Money

From rejected pitches to 109% first-day surge: The AI Tiger that chose consumer scale over enterprise contracts, multimodality over language models, and open source over secrecy

Ksenia Se

AI 101

Jan 8, 2026

AI 101: DeepSeek mHC: Breaking the Architectural Limits of Deep Learning

your full guide to how residual connections started, how they evolved, and why DeepSeek’s Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections (mHC) are so important now

Alyona Vert., +1