xAI

Who Is Diego Pasini? The 20-Year-Old Student Now Leading Elon Musk's xAI Team

Elon Musk's xAI has hired 20-year-old college student Diego Pasini to be the head of its data annotation team after over 500 lay offs. Pasini, on loan from the University of Pennsylvania, now manages the training of Grok's conversational AI, without much experience. His appointment comes after many months of reorganization across the company.
Sep 17, 2025
By Anshul Panda
AppSec

Simulating an AppSec Team with AI

Srajan Gupta's work with AI Security Crew sits at the convergence of multiple trends: the rise of AI agents, the need for scalable security, and the growing complexity of cloud-native, distributed systems.
Sep 15, 2025
By Alexander Maxwell
U-Net architecture

A Technologist's Path through Scientific Research

Groups working in genomics, bioinformatics, and materials science started experimenting with similar approaches. Once-skeptical teams began to see the value of embedding AI pipelines into older frameworks rather than discarding them
Sep 14, 2025
By Alexander Maxwell
ByteDance SeeDream4.0

ByteDance Launches Seedream 4.0 to Rival Google's Nano Banana in AI Image Race

The Chinese company behind TikTok, ByteDance, has released its new AI image model titled Seedream 4.0 to compete with Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash, also referred to as Nano Banana. The new tool combines text-to-image generation with processing advancements, allowing for quick, accurate, and cost-effective image creation.
Sep 13, 2025
By Anshul Panda