The Superhuman Mathematician

Remind me in 1 year

This week, news broke that Christian Szegedy, a co-founder of XAI, and a legend in AI research, inventor of Batch Normalization and Adversarial Examples, had left OpenAI, and joined a little known startup called Morph Labs.

Morph bills itself as:

Morph Labs is building a cloud for superintelligence.

Infinibranch enables AI agents on Morph Cloud to snapshot, replicate, autoscale, test, debug, deploy, and reason about software at light speed.

Morph Labs

Of course, this is major news, as Elon gave founder shares to the early researchers at xAI, and had variously said that Grok would be “maximally truth seeking” and “uncover the secrets of the universe”.

What follows is a some twitter threads tracing what happened.