January 21, 2026•Nathan VanBenschoten (Chief Architect)The pursuit of scale is not vanity. When you take existing systems and optimize them from first principles to achieve a step change in scalability, you can create something entirely new. Nothing has demonstrated that more clearly than the explosion in deep learning over the past decade. The ML community took decades-old ideas and combined them with advancements in hardware, new algorithms, and hyper-specialization to forge something remarkab...