Rajkiran
Panuganti
AI Engineer · Researcher · Advisor
PhD, CS · Ohio StateB.Tech, ECE · IIT Bombay14 yrs Microsoftex-Google2 patents
Founder of a stealth AI startup. Advising early-stage companies on production generative AI. Researching mechanistic interpretability — CircuitProbe (arXiv 2026) finds reasoning circuits 1000× faster. Writing weekly about what's actually happening at the AI frontier.
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Founder
Stealth Startup · Oct 2025
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Advisor
Codemod · Jan 2024
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Advisor
AppAxon · Jan 2024
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LinkedIn Newsletter↗Strategic Advisor
Nelumbium Capital · Mar 2023
Writing
The Emerging Communication Stack for Agents
Two communication stacks for AI agents are being built simultaneously: the channel layer (voice, email, SMS, Slack, WhatsApp) where agents reach humans, and the protocol layer (MCP, A2A, AG-UI) where agents reach each other and tools. Here is what is in each, who is building it, and what 2028 looks like.
Read essay ↗Apr 24
Solving Hallucination: Where the Research Stands
11 min
Apr 22
The Agentic Economy Is Already Here
12 min
Apr 21
The Intelligence Layer
7 min
Apr 15
The Falling Price of Intelligence
9 min
Apr 14
Why Looping Is the New Scaling
9 min
Apr 11
The Quiet Skill Revolution
8 min
Apr 7
AI Gets Personal
9 min
Apr 1
When Bigger Models Get Dumber
10 min
Apr 1
The Stack Got Leaked
8 min
Mar 31
The Stack Eats the Model
7 min
Mar 23
The Three Races Happening in AI Right Now
7 min
Mar 22
The Week AI Learned to Do Its Own Research
6 min
Feb 14
Moltbook Is AI Theater, Not AI Progress
3 min
Feb 14
Most AI Agents Aren't Agents
2 min
Feb 13
Voice Models Finally Sound Human. Now What?
3 min
Feb 12
Open Models Are Winning (Just Not How You Think)
2 min
Feb 12
Agentic Workflows: What Actually Ships vs. What Gets Demoed
3 min
Feb 11
Generative UI Is Solving a Problem Developers Don't Have
3 min
Feb 10
MCP Won the Protocol War. Security Lost.
3 min
Feb 10
Enterprise AI Fails on Boring Problems
2 min
Feb 9
AI Coding Tools Hit a Plateau Nobody Wants to Admit
3 min
Feb 8
The Reasoning Models Race Is Getting Weird
2 min
Feb 8
16 Claude Agents Built a C Compiler. Here's What That Actually Means.
3 min
Feb 7
Computer Use vs Operator: Two Visions for AI Automation
3 min
Feb 6
The AI Workflow Tooling Mess
3 min
Feb 5
RAG Is Harder Than It Looks
2 min
Feb 5
Multimodal Agents Sound Great. Deployment Is Brutal.
3 min
Feb 4
Context Windows Keep Growing. It Doesn't Matter as Much as You Think.
3 min
Feb 2
Prompt Engineering Is Mostly Not Engineering
2 min