Tech Innovators Start Pivoting to World AI Models
After nearly a decade focused on large language models (LLMs), computer scientist Louis Castricato concluded that the field had reached a stage where groundbreaking advances were becoming harder to find. Castricato, who spent eight years researching the technology that powers conversational AI systems such as Claude and ChatGPT, said he increasingly felt that the most significant discoveries had already been made. In his view, much of the current work centers on finding practical uses for existing systems rather than developing entirely new foundations. That realization led him to leave his doctoral program at Brown University and launch a startup called Overworld. The…