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Human communication is multimodal: we gesture while speaking, draw diagrams while explaining, and understand meaning through the interplay of sensory inputs. Yet most AI systems operate in silos—compu

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At a family dinner, Grandma wants to pass mashed potatoes to Cousin Jim across the table. The inefficient approach: Grandma scoops potatoes onto her plate, passes to Uncle Bob, who scoops onto his pla

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Fine-tuning a 70B parameter model costs $50K+ and requires weeks of training on expensive hardware. This is the reality for teams building domain-specific language models. Traditional full-parameter f

Drop a rubber ball from shoulder height. It bounces back, but not as high. Each bounce is lower than the last—vigorous at first, then gradually settling, until it barely leaves the ground before final

Disney World on a summer morning. Thousands of families rushing toward gates. Without control, it would be a stampede. Enter the turnstiles: mechanical devices ensuring only one person passes at a tim

A food delivery platform's real-time dashboard froze during Friday dinner rush. Restaurants could not see incoming orders. Dispatchers could not assign drivers. Customer service was blind to delivery