Rajkiran Panuganti

AI engineer, researcher, and advisor · Previously at Microsoft and Google · PhD, Ohio State · B.Tech, IIT Bombay

Rajkiran Panuganti is an AI engineer and researcher. He spent 14 years at Microsoft working on Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Bing search ranking, Cortana, and Azure ML. Today he is building a new AI startup in stealth, advises other AI startups, conducts research on mechanistic interpretability, and writes weekly about Generative AI.

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LatestApr 15, 20269 min

The Falling Price of Intelligence

GPT-4 level intelligence went from $36 per million tokens to effectively $0 in three years. Six independent mechanisms are driving this, and they compound.

Rajkiran Panuganti

Writing

The Falling Price of Intelligence

Why Looping Is the New Scaling

The Quiet Skill Revolution

AI Gets Personal

When Bigger Models Get Dumber

The Stack Got Leaked

The Stack Eats the Model

The Three Races Happening in AI Right Now

The Week AI Learned to Do Its Own Research

Moltbook Is AI Theater, Not AI Progress

Most AI Agents Aren't Agents

Voice Models Finally Sound Human. Now What?

Open Models Are Winning (Just Not How You Think)

Agentic Workflows: What Actually Ships vs. What Gets Demoed

Generative UI Is Solving a Problem Developers Don't Have

MCP Won the Protocol War. Security Lost.

Enterprise AI Fails on Boring Problems

AI Coding Tools Hit a Plateau Nobody Wants to Admit

The Reasoning Models Race Is Getting Weird

16 Claude Agents Built a C Compiler. Here's What That Actually Means.

Computer Use vs Operator: Two Visions for AI Automation

The AI Workflow Tooling Mess

RAG Is Harder Than It Looks

Multimodal Agents Sound Great. Deployment Is Brutal.

Context Windows Keep Growing. It Doesn't Matter as Much as You Think.

Prompt Engineering Is Mostly Not Engineering

Selected Research

CircuitProbe: Predicting Reasoning Circuits in Transformers via Stability Zone Detection