A community of ideas on AI
Quorum
Thinking seriously about AI, beyond the noise.
The name comes from distributed systems: only when a majority of nodes agree can the system move forward. This is meant to be a gathering of people willing to think carefully and calibrate one another.
We focus on AI infrastructure, agents and organizational change, writing for engineers, technology leaders and founders. Less news, more judgment.
Core questions
Intelligence is bounded by its systems
As models converge, the real difference lies around them — scheduling, reliability, data loops and cost decide how far intelligence can go.
Software is becoming a colleague
Our relationship with software is shifting from operating to delegating. Making agents plan, act and deliver reliably is the defining problem of this generation of engineers.
AI-native means rewriting the organization
Adopting tools is only the prologue. The dividend arrives when the way R&D, design, operations and supply chain work together is redefined.
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AI-native means rewriting the organizationA century ago the electric motor took forty years to show up in productivity statistics. AI is replaying the same story.
Software is becoming a colleagueFrom operating to delegating — whether an agent becomes a real colleague depends less on how smart it is than on whether you can let go.
Intelligence is bounded by its systemsModel capabilities are converging. What separates teams now is the unglamorous engineering around the model.
Your host
Yang Qiu
CTO · Co-Founder / Partner · Chief AI Architect
Across Baidu, Huawei and Microsoft he helped build the AI infrastructure behind LLM training and inference for OpenAI and Microsoft. Today he is co-founder and CTO of Haiclaud, leading development of the desktop agent MoiAI.
He also advises a small number of companies on technology and AI strategy.
Previously at
Microsoft
Huawei
Baidu
UC
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