Axes
Every record belongs to one main axis and may carry related axes. 22 axes split the road AI has taken.
Prehistory — From Neural Networks to the Transformer
What piled up over 80 years before AI reached the Transformer?
66 records · 0 notesAxis ①Prompt Engineering
Performance you gain without changing the model, just by changing how you talk to it
84 records · 2 notesAxis ②RAG, Fine-Tuning & Context
Ways to give a model what it doesn't know, right when it needs it
86 records · 2 notesAxis ③Tools & Agents
From AI that answers to AI that does the work itself
99 records · 22 notesAxis ④MCP & Skills Standardization
When everyone hooks up tools their own way, a standard eventually emerges
41 records · 7 notesAxis ⑤Loop & Harness Engineering
How do you run a system that isn't done after a single call?
44 records · 9 notesAxis ⑥Reasoning Models & the AGI Debate
Does more time to think make a model better, and where does it end?
94 records · 5 notesAxis ⑦Multimodal
Models that read and make more than text
73 records · 1 notesAxis ⑧Inference Infrastructure & Serving
Running a model every day costs more than building it
66 records · 3 notesAxis ⑨Open-Weight Lineage
Another family tree, built by models whose weights were released
109 records · 1 notesAxis ⑩Safety, Alignment & Interpretability
How to handle more powerful models — the answer from the technical side
113 records · 8 notesAxis ⑪Model Architecture & Training Methods
Attempts to change what's inside the model
73 records · 1 notesAxis ⑫Training Data & Post-Training
What was it fed, and what was it polished with afterward?
64 records · 2 notesAxis ⑬Compute Economics & Geopolitics
Chips, electricity and money set the pace of technology
103 records · 12 notesAxis ⑭Physical World & Real-World Impact
What AI has actually done once it stepped off the screen
88 records · 16 notesAxis ⑮Regulation, Law & Governance
Records of laws and institutions starting to catch up
101 records · 2 notesAxis ⑯Evaluation & Benchmarks
What proves the claim that a model is good?
77 records · 4 notesAxis ⑰Embeddings & Vector Search
The layer that finds things with similar meanings
64 records · 0 notesAxis ⑱AI Infrastructure Software
The software layer built on top of models
64 records · 0 notesAxis ⑲On-Device & Local Inference
Running it in your hand instead of sending it to a server
33 records · 2 notesAxis ⑳People & Discourse
Who said what, and who moved where?
75 records · 3 notesAxis ㉑Graph Engineering
The different things one word, "graph," can point to
18 records · 4 notes