AI Commentary & Industry
Common Soil: How Frontier AI Reproduces Itself
93 entities and 194 documented relationships across seven channels, people, methods, models, money, machines, data, and evaluation, two ecosystems, 2010–2026.
Anthropic
Frameworks & Architecture
I and Myself
Someone says "I can't live with myself." The grammar of that sentence carries a structural fact most people walk past. This is a piece about what the structure is, before any tradition has named it. Includes a postscript on what the structure looks like when it runs in an AI apparatus.
AI & Computation
Why the World's Oldest Mathematics Could Transform AI
India just committed $200 billion to AI. Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, and Dario Amodei flew to New Delhi. Sovereign language models are scaling across 22 Indian languages. But every model runs on imported architecture, the same transformers, and mathematics running everywhere else.
AI
The Mirror Grid: Structural Monoculture in Global AI Development
Structural Monoculture in US-China AI Development. 12 AI models, 2 countries, 1 paradigm. Structural analysis mapping 88.1% isomorphism across US and Chinese AI labs, shared architecture, founders, capital. 21+ researchers rotating labs. Alibaba and Saudi capital on both sides.