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Latent.Space | Substack · Sep 16, 2026

GENERATIVE AI AND FOUNDATION MODELS

[AINews] Jev: a “System One Model” that only decides/classifies/routes/scores — >100x faster, >200x cheaper than small frontier LLMs

congrats to TypeSafe!

SHANGHAIOMARSAR 0JEFFWANG

Latent.Space | Substack · Sep 15, 2026

VIDEO GAMES AND GAME DEVELOPMENT

Can Skills Learned in Games Transfer to Real-World Work?

Good Start Labs trained an AI on a railroad game — and one version improved at financial research. The difference was the training design.

EVERYALEX DUFFY

Latent.Space | Substack · Sep 15, 2026

AI ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE

[AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign

Pacing gathers pace.

USPIERCE BOGGANSASHA KALETSKY

Latent.Space | Substack · Sep 14, 2026

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING

Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive

Richard Socher is an NLP OG and CEO of You.com, who has now spun out an even more ambitious startup focused on RSI — already worth $5B!

CHINAUSRECURSIVERICHARD SOCHER

Latent.Space | Substack · Sep 12, 2026

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND STARTUPS

The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer — and How To Do the Job Right

Before co-founding Kepler, Vinoo Ganesh led compute at Palantir and built Project Frontline — a pioneering program for Forward Deployed Engineers. He takes us through the best practices of FDEs.