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OpenAI is becoming a deployment company

The harder phase of the AI cycle is no longer model access. It is institutional adoption.

DGTLPPL Editorial DeskJul 12, 20263 min

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Three ways into what is changing.

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OpenAI schedules DevDay for September 29

The developer conference returns to Fort Mason in San Francisco.

DGTLPPL Editorial DeskApr 6, 20262 min

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Anthropic publishes a new Economic Index cadence

The research program is tracking how AI use changes over time.

DGTLPPL Editorial DeskMar 31, 20262 min

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SIGGRAPH opens in Los Angeles on July 19

The graphics conference arrives as generative video becomes a production category.

DGTLPPL Editorial DeskApr 5, 20262 min

Reports and research

Work that stays useful after the news cycle.

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The stack beneath the intelligence

A journey from the prompt to the power grid reveals the industrial system inside every AI answer.

DGTLPPL Editorial DeskMay 23, 20265 min

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Editor’s picks

Three investigations into the systems behind the product.

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The people who decide whether an agent is ready

Evaluation teams are becoming the quiet editorial layer inside autonomous software.

DGTLPPL Editorial DeskMay 22, 20265 min

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Films

A token’s journey

An annotated visual essay through the physical systems behind an AI response.

Mar 19, 20263 min

South of Market, between releases

A city film about the ordinary geography around extraordinary claims.

Mar 13, 20263 min

Conversations

Dario Amodei on the economics of powerful AI

A public-record conversation about scaling, labor, and the institutions around frontier systems.

DGTLPPL Editorial DeskMay 10, 20264 min

Dylan Field on design after the prompt

Config’s public record shows Figma absorbing code and generation without abandoning collaboration.

DGTLPPL Editorial DeskMay 5, 20264 min

Research

Where people use Claude at work

A reading of Anthropic’s Economic Index, occupation by occupation.

DGTLPPL Editorial DeskApr 16, 20264 min

The agent toolchain, mapped

Editors, runtimes, model providers, observability systems, databases, and deployment platforms now form a recognizable stack.

DGTLPPL Editorial DeskApr 12, 20264 min

Trending topics

The ideas moving through the archive.

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Upcoming events

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Jul 19SIGGRAPH 2026The annual conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques.Sep 29OpenAI DevDay 2026OpenAI’s developer conference for builders working with its models and platform.Sep 10Y Combinator Summer 2026 Demo DayThe public culmination of Y Combinator’s Summer 2026 batch.

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Dario Amodei

Co-founder and CEO, Anthropic

Dario Amodei is covered by DGTLPPL for work spanning frontier models and AI safety.02

Jensen Huang

Founder and CEO, NVIDIA

Jensen Huang is covered by DGTLPPL for work spanning accelerated computing and semiconductors.03

Fei-Fei Li

Computer scientist and co-director, Stanford HAI

Fei-Fei Li is covered by DGTLPPL for work spanning computer vision and spatial intelligence.

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Fei-Fei Li

Fei-Fei Li is computer scientist and co-director, Stanford HAI. This dossier follows the decisions, products, research, and institutions connected to computer vision, spatial intelligence, human-centered AI. It is maintained from primary public records and is updated when a role or affiliation materially changes.

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Current roleComputer scientist and co-director, Stanford HAIEditorial focuscomputer vision · spatial intelligence · human-centered AI

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01OpenAIOpenAI is an ai research and product company tracked across products, people, capital, and public commitments.02AnthropicAnthropic is an ai safety and research company tracked across products, people, capital, and public commitments.03NVIDIANVIDIA is an accelerated computing company tracked across products, people, capital, and public commitments.04FigmaFigma is a collaborative design software company tracked across products, people, capital, and public commitments.05AnysphereAnysphere is an ai developer tools company tracked across products, people, capital, and public commitments.06Mistral AIMistral AI is an ai model company tracked across products, people, capital, and public commitments.

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Inside the new design-to-code continuum

Figma, Vercel, Lovable, and Cursor are converging on the same unfinished object.

DGTLPPL Editorial DeskMay 20, 20265 min

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The independent labs shaping generative culture

Midjourney, Runway, and ElevenLabs are building aesthetics as well as infrastructure.

DGTLPPL Editorial DeskMay 17, 20265 min

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The new economics of making software

Agents compress implementation, but the total cost of ownership moves into review, operations, and maintenance.

DGTLPPL Editorial DeskMay 12, 20265 min