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Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models

aired Jul 04, 2026 · 107.0m
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Summary

Hello, welcome back to the Cognitive Revolution, and happy 4th of July to everyone in the United States.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, know, kind, including: Today, my guest is Ramin Hassani, CEO of Liquid AI, a company founded by MIT researchers that's developing device-native foundation models.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Today, my guest is Ramin Hassani, CEO of Liquid AI, a company founded by MIT researchers that's developing device-native foundation models
  2. 02I'll say up front that just before recording, I encouraged Ramin to go deep into the weeds on the technical details of Liquid AI's work
  3. 03And while those systems haven't scaled up to today's capabilities frontier, the company has maintained the liquid philosophy, which today means taking a neutral, empirical approach
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