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.
While the AI news cycle was chasing Claude Mythos and Muse Spark, eight of the top thirty AI repos on GitHub trending this week were small, single-purpose skills. The agent ecosystem is starting to look more like Unix than ChatGPT.