life
Thinking about life
The things we do. They change.
Alexy Khrabrov
Translating a History Book about Rio Grande with Codex
In addition to Computer Science, my lifelong interests include history and Italy, often overlapping. When we watched Il Gattopardo on Netflix, made after a recent Italian classic, it rekindled my interest in Garibaldi. In the US, there are many towns named after Garibaldi, who captured the imagination of Americans and
Learn Rust from Bespoke Books
In this post, I’ll show you an entirely new way to learn programming in technology domains — by coauthoring custom-made books with the same AI that you use to build your codebases. Codex Book Claude Book As a life-long founder and organizer of data, AI and programming conferences
Alexy interviews Sir Timothy Gowers on the Future of Math and AI
Interview recorded at Station F, Paris, at GOSIM AI on May 6, 2026. Alexy Khrabrov speaks with Sir Timothy Gowers, Fields Medal-winning mathematician, professor at the Collège de France and the University of Cambridge, and a leading voice on automatic theorem proving. The conversation covers how mathematicians actually discover
Alexy interviews Slava Tykhonov at CODATA
The Semantic Layer for Reliable AI Interview recorded in Paris, France, at the International Science Council and CODATA office. Alexy Khrabrov speaks with Slava Tykhonov, Head of AI at CODATA, about the semantic and trust infrastructure needed for reliable AI. The conversation covers CODATA's global policy role, Croissant,
Alexy talks with Yann LeCun about a new Global Model
Yann LeCun on Tapestry, Open Source AI, and Why LLMs Are Useful but Not Enough Interview recorded in Paris, France, at Station F, during the Tapestry kickoff workshop. Alexy Khrabrov speaks with Yann LeCun about Tapestry, an open and collaborative effort to build diverse AI assistants through federated training. The
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Refreshing Spark API for the Agentic Era
Press enter or click to view image in full size As many of you know, I’ve been a Spark pioneer from the very beginning, popularizing Spark at SF Scala, cofounding the very first Spark meetup, and presenting it to developer audiences around the world. When Big Data was as
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At the Gemma 4 Launch, Under the Pyramid
On April 17, I went to the Gemma 4 launch: SF Edition at the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco. It was one of those Bay Area AI evenings where the setting does half the storytelling before anyone says a word: the sharp geometry of the Pyramid above us, the city
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Semantic Croissant
-- -- Slava Tykhonov is an innovator in Graph+AI space for decades. He’s been a lead R&D engineer, and now an ambassador, of Dataverse — a distributed public repository of datasets enabling science across the world. Now Slava is a Head of AI and Interoperability at CODATA, a European
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Dr. Alexy Khrabrov: AI Pioneer, Community Architect, and Visionary of the Agentic Era
Press enter or click to view image in full size Long before “agentic AI” entered the mainstream lexicon, Dr. Alexy Khrabrov was building its intellectual foundations. In 1999, working alongside George Cybenko at Dartmouth, Khrabrov co-authored Information Architecture and Agents, a landmark survey of the architecture and properties of
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Reliable Agentic AI
Generative AI (GenAI) started a revolution in software eating the world. It was eating the world piecemeally and rather peacefully until the end of 2022, albeit at a gradually accelerating pace. Software, as always until then, was used to automate and amplify certain areas of human activity in the same
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AI By the Bay 2025: Reliable Agentic AI
This November (11/17–19), AI By the Bay, the iconic independent developer conference, returns to the Temple of Data and AI in Oakland for the 11th year. Scale, Data and AI By the Bay, since 2013 It’s not just a conference, it’s a community of the best