AIAcademy learner pathway

I want frontier updates

I want frontier updates connects 3 realms, 126 mapped chapters, and 1 Practice Lab capstone.

Artifact templates include Policy note, Project spec, Paper club brief, Compute budget note.

Realms

• Frontier Change
  Current and near-future model capability, labs, releases, and fast-moving AI shifts.
• Science And Research
  Research literacy, benchmarks, interpretability, discovery, and scientific method.
• Infrastructure And Environment
  Compute, chips, datacenters, energy, robotics, supply chains, and physical constraints.

Capstone practice

• Quarterly frontier update brief · Policy note

Mapped chapters

• Before transformers
  AI Foundations · Where did AI come from?
• The transformer (2017)
  AI Foundations · Where did AI come from?
• From GPT-3 to ChatGPT
  AI Foundations · Where did AI come from?
• Five years in: 2026
  AI Foundations · Where did AI come from?
• Tokens, context, prediction
  AI Foundations · How does AI think?
• Training: the three steps
  AI Foundations · How does AI think?
• Hallucination, sycophancy, confidence
  AI Foundations · How does AI think?
• Reasoning models (the 2024-2026 leap)
  AI Foundations · How does AI think?
• What models do well
  AI Foundations · What can AI do, what can't it
• Where models struggle
  AI Foundations · What can AI do, what can't it
• How we measure capability
  AI Foundations · What can AI do, what can't it
• Reading model announcements skeptically
  AI Foundations · What can AI do, what can't it
• Tools and function calls
  AI Foundations · Reasoning, agents, and tools (2024-2026 leap)
• Agents
  AI Foundations · Reasoning, agents, and tools (2024-2026 leap)
• Multimodality
  AI Foundations · Reasoning, agents, and tools (2024-2026 leap)
• The current model lineup (2026)
  AI Foundations · Where the field is right now
• What's hot in research right now (2026)
  AI Foundations · Where the field is right now
• Open questions
  AI Foundations · Where the field is right now
• The staged-release pattern
  AI Foundations · The 2027 model lineup
• GPT-6 and continuous memory
  AI Foundations · The 2027 model lineup
• Gemini 4 and the world-model bet
  AI Foundations · The 2027 model lineup
• The open-weights split
  AI Foundations · The 2027 model lineup
• The China frontier in ten labs
  AI Foundations · The 2027 model lineup
• Why the old benchmarks died
  AI Foundations · Benchmark literacy after MMLU