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How Foundation Models Evolved: A PhD Journey Through AI's Breakthrough Era

2026-01-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·57m 6s ·by Andreessen Horowitz
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The Stanford PhD who built DSPy thought he was just creating better prompts—until he realized he’d accidentally invented a new paradigm that makes LLMs actually programmable. While everyone obsesses over whether LLMs will get us to AGI, Omar Khattab is solving a more urgent problem: the gap between