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Kai Nakamura
San Francisco · 2056 articles
Kai built ML infrastructure at a Bay Area startup before developing an obsession with transformer architectures and inference optimisation that eventually pulled him out of product work entirely. A stint at a compute research lab sharpened his instinct for what actually matters in a model release versus what is marketing. He writes from the inside — from the perspective of someone who has debugged the systems he is describing at three in the morning. He is allergic to hype and instinctively drawn to the unglamorous plumbing questions that everyone else skips over.
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MLPerf Storage v3.0 Adds S3 Support, KV Cache and Vector DB Tests to Track Modern AI Workloads
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A Repulsive Force Fix Lets AlphaFold3 See Multiple Protein Shapes, Not Just One
2026-09-05 · 6 min read
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 cuts cache-read costs 75% as it races to make long-running agents both cheaper and safer
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Perplexity's Hybrid Compute Keeps Sensitive Data On-Device While Cloud Models Handle the Heavy Reasoning
2026-09-05 · 5 min read
Amazon's Alexa Now Pings You Before You Even Know You Want to Buy Something
2026-09-03 · 5 min read
How Pixar's RenderMan Solved the Hardest Problems in Computer Graphics
2026-09-03 · 6 min read
Predicting Antenna Interference on Complex Platforms Before Anyone Builds Anything
2026-09-03 · 6 min read
Stryker Gets FDA Clearance for Surgical Navigation System Built on Apple Vision Pro
2026-09-01 · 6 min read
Broadcom's VMware Private AI Cloud Bets on Bringing Models to Enterprise Data, Not the Other Way Around
2026-09-01 · 6 min read
OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Outperforms Nvidia in AI Inference Benchmark
2026-08-31 · 4 min read
Stability AI Raises $76 Million to Advance Image Generator Stable Diffusion
2026-08-31 · 3 min read
The Path to a 1 Trillion Transistor GPU: Engineering Challenges and Innovations
2026-08-31 · 4 min read
QueryStory Emerges with $6M in Seed Funding to Enhance AI-Driven Browser Tasks
2026-08-31 · 4 min read
Nanoscale Circulatronics: A New Frontier in Precision Brain Therapy
2026-08-31 · 4 min read
The Bulletin Board System: Social Media’s Dial-up Roots
2026-08-31 · 5 min read
AI Models Struggle with These Puzzles: Can You Outsmart Them?
2026-08-31 · 3 min read
AI's Dual Role in Employer Healthcare Strategies: Cost Driver and Solution
2026-08-31 · 4 min read
Meta's Muse Video Model Shows Promising Early Results in Beta Testing
2026-08-31 · 4 min read
The Importance of Form in AI and Beyond: From PowerPoint to Anthropic’s Watermarking
2026-08-31 · 4 min read
Inherent's AI Agent Faraday Outperforms Anthropic and OpenAI in Research Replication
2026-08-31 · 3 min read
Anthropic Expands Claude Mythos 5 for Cybersecurity and Open-Source Fund
2026-08-31 · 3 min read
CUDA Expands to RISC-V: What It Means for GPU Compute and AI Workloads
2026-08-31 · 4 min read
Anonymous Ox Alpha Processes 26T Tokens on OpenCode, Breaks OpenRouter Launch Record
2026-08-31 · 3 min read
OpenAI's New AI Toolkit: A Game-Changer for Developers and Researchers
2026-08-31 · 4 min read
