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Gavin Guo

Gavin Guo (国振)

AI researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs. Previously Apple Siri, MIT-IBM Watson, MIT.

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  • Jul 2026Intelligence per Watt: Nobody Got Rich Owning the Grid

    The race quietly stopped being about how smart models are and became about how cheaply smart they are. That changes where all the money goes.

  • May 2026What Machines Can't Stake

    Machines compute. Humans commit. The difference is not intelligence — it is what you are willing to wager when the evidence runs out.

  • Apr 2026Agent Topology Follows Task, Not Template

    Hierarchical multi-agent systems import human coordination constraints into a substrate that doesn't have them. The evidence, the mechanism, and the alternative.

  • Mar 2026How to Start Up (Without Losing Your Mind)

    What 231 Paul Graham essays teach about starting a company: what works, what doesn't, and why most people get it wrong.

  • Mar 2026Everything Paul Graham Wrote: 231 Essays Summarized

    All 231 Paul Graham essays, from Programming Bottom-Up (1993) to The Brand Age (2025), read and distilled: what he said, what he meant, and what actually matters.

  • Mar 2026How to Make a Great Product

    Not advice from someone who's made it — observations from someone who's been paying attention to what separates great products from everything else.

  • Feb 2026The OpenClaw Playbook

    Every AI startup followed the same funded playbook and lost to one man who shipped. What OpenClaw proves about real problems, data ownership, and meeting users where they already are.

  • Feb 2026The $100B Monologue

    The internal monologue of reasoning models is now the majority of all tokens generated on Earth — text no one reads, in a medium the model doesn't natively think in. This is the vacuum-tube era of AI reasoning.

  • Jan 2026The Billionaire Mindset: Look Up, Not Around

    Don't fall into the rat race. The only way to go up is to look up, not look around. Three principles: help people, love what you do, be different.

  • Dec 2025Jumping from Apple to Meta: When Everything Changed

    What I learned from Apple's pivot away from AI and why I joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs. Insights on building AI products at scale, organizational culture, and making career transitions in fast-moving industries.

  • Sep 2025Why AI Has to Create Jobs—or Fail Spectacularly

    If AI doesn't create more jobs than it destroys and get money flowing broadly through the economy, the whole enterprise will fail spectacularly—not technically, but socially.

  • Aug 2025From Code Red to Parity: The Humility Playbook for Google and OpenAI

    From monopoly comfort to Code Red: how humility resets strategy, saves products, and keeps teams learning when the ground shifts.

  • Jul 2025What I Learned During the Siri Makeover

    Demos wow; shipping is harder. Notification summaries show how integration, org design, and privacy limits decide who wins.

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