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Expert takes Aug 30, 2026

This week · episode published August 26

Anima Anandkumar: the resolution the physical world demands makes transformers — the architecture behind today's mainstream language models — arithmetically impossible.

Who she is comes first, because almost all the weight here rests on her. Anima Anandkumar holds a named chair at Caltech in mathematics and computer science, served as NVIDIA's director of AI research, and earlier helped build the cloud AI team at AWS; she recently joined a United Nations scientific advisory board. ⚠️ She also originated the alternative route below, and has an academic stake in it.

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