Axes

Every record belongs to one main axis and may carry related axes. 25 axes split the road AI has taken.

Axis ⓪

Prehistory — From Neural Networks to the Transformer

What piled up over 80 years before AI reached the Transformer?

66 records · 0 notes
Axis ①

Prompt Engineering

Performance you gain without changing the model, just by changing how you talk to it

84 records · 3 notes
Axis ②

RAG, Fine-Tuning & Context

Ways to give a model what it doesn't know, right when it needs it

86 records · 3 notes
Axis ③

Tools & Agents

From AI that answers to AI that does the work itself

108 records · 26 notes
Axis ④

MCP & Skills Standardization

When everyone hooks up tools their own way, a standard eventually emerges

42 records · 7 notes
Axis ⑤

Loop & Harness Engineering

How do you run a system that isn't done after a single call?

47 records · 12 notes
Axis ⑥

Reasoning Models & the AGI Debate

Does more time to think make a model better, and where does it end?

96 records · 5 notes
Axis ⑦

Multimodal

Models that read and make more than text

77 records · 1 notes
Axis ⑧

Inference Infrastructure & Serving

Running a model every day costs more than building it

67 records · 5 notes
Axis ⑨

Open-Weight Lineage

Another family tree, built by models whose weights were released

109 records · 1 notes
Axis ⑩

Safety, Alignment & Interpretability

How to handle more powerful models — the answer from the technical side

118 records · 9 notes
Axis ⑪

Model Architecture & Training Methods

Attempts to change what's inside the model

74 records · 1 notes
Axis ⑫

Training Data & Post-Training

What was it fed, and what was it polished with afterward?

67 records · 2 notes
Axis ⑬

Compute Economics & Geopolitics

Chips, electricity and money set the pace of technology

108 records · 13 notes
Axis ⑭

Physical World & Real-World Impact

What AI has actually done once it stepped off the screen

97 records · 17 notes
Axis ⑮

Regulation, Law & Governance

Records of laws and institutions starting to catch up

108 records · 2 notes
Axis ⑯

Evaluation & Benchmarks

What proves the claim that a model is good?

78 records · 6 notes
Axis ⑰

Embeddings & Vector Search

The layer that finds things with similar meanings

62 records · 0 notes
Axis ⑱

AI Infrastructure Software

The software layer built on top of models

66 records · 1 notes
Axis ⑲

On-Device & Local Inference

Running it in your hand instead of sending it to a server

34 records · 3 notes
Axis ⑳

People & Discourse

Who said what, and who moved where?

84 records · 4 notes
Axis ㉑

Graph Engineering

The different things one word, "graph," can point to

18 records · 4 notes
Axis ㉒

Agent Security & Sandboxing

Boundaries outside the model that hold even when it's fooled

35 records · 2 notes
Axis ㉓

On-Premises & Sovereign AI

Who owns AI, and where does it run?

32 records · 0 notes
Axis ㉔

Diffusion Language Models

Not one token at a time, but polishing the whole passage

9 records · 0 notes