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#144: New Scaling Law? What “Agentic Scaling" Is – Inside NVIDIA’s Biggest Idea at GTC 2026

"Froth on the Daydream"

Mar 16, 2026

FOD#144: New Scaling Law? What “Agentic Scaling" Is – Inside NVIDIA’s Biggest Idea at GTC 2026

From agentic scaling and NemoClaw to GPU+LPU supercomputers and open model coalitions and straight to the orbital data centers

Ksenia Se

🎙️The New Inner Loop of Software Engineering with Michael Bolin

Interviews with Innovators

Mar 14, 2026

🎙️The New Inner Loop of Software Engineering with Michael Bolin

OpenAI Codex lead explains the agent loop, sandboxing, repo design, and how software engineering changes when agents generate most of the code.

Ksenia Se

AI 101

Mar 11, 2026

AI 101: Beyond RL: The New Fine-Tuning Stack for LLMs

Discussing the rise of generated adapters, like Text-to-LoRA, Doc-to-LoRA and others, Evolution Strategies (ES) optimization and the future of dynamic fine-tuning

Alyona Vert., +1

FOD#143: What is Superhuman Adaptable Intelligence (SAI)?

"Froth on the Daydream"

Mar 9, 2026

FOD#143: What is Superhuman Adaptable Intelligence (SAI)?

and brilliant autoresearch set up open sourced by Andrej Karpathy

Ksenia Se

Inside Reflection AI: The $20B Open-Model Startup That Has Yet to Ship

GenAI Unicorns

Mar 8, 2026

Inside Reflection AI: The $20B Open-Model Startup That Has Yet to Ship

Why the West may want Reflection AI, and why that still does not mean Reflection AI will make it

Ksenia Se

AI 101

Mar 4, 2026

AI 101: From Vibe Coding to Spec-Driven Development

How to combat the AI slop in coding and build software that actually follows a plan and your goals + Spec-Driven Development tools

Alyona Vert., +1

FOD#142: What is Agentic RL and why it matters

"Froth on the Daydream"

Mar 2, 2026

FOD#142: What is Agentic RL and why it matters

and why Anthropic is not a hero

Ksenia Se

🎙️"We Are the Only Ones Who Would Build It"

Interviews with Innovators

Feb 28, 2026

🎙️"We Are the Only Ones Who Would Build It"

Ioannis Antonoglou on leaving DeepMind, open-weight frontier models, and why the West needs Reflection AI

Ksenia Se

AI 101

Feb 25, 2026

AI 101: The Inference Chip Wars – MatX, Taalas, and the Cracks in the GPU Era

From NVIDIA Vera Rubin to model-as-hardware, and why “inference chips” are no longer one category

Alyona Vert., +1

FOD#141: What Happens to Software Engineering When Anyone Can Build?

"Froth on the Daydream"

Feb 24, 2026

FOD#141: What Happens to Software Engineering When Anyone Can Build?

the great split

Ksenia Se

AI 101

Feb 18, 2026

AI 101: OpenClaw Explained + lightweight alternatives

Everything you need to know about OpenClaw: the tech stack, lightweight alternatives, and why it changed the agentic discourse

Alyona Vert., +1

"Froth on the Daydream"

Feb 16, 2026

FOD#140: Something Medium is Happening?

and what you need to feel comfortable with AI

Ksenia Se

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