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Liquid AI's CEO: "Humans Will Stop Talking Within 25 Years!" — Ramin Hasani

Aug 7, 2026 · 1h 30m

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Ramin Hasani spent a decade studying a 2-millimeter worm before anyone outside academia knew his name. Then he solved an equation that had gone unsolved for over 100 years, published it in Nature Machine Intelligence, and woke up to an inbox full of term sheets he never asked for. That paper became Liquid AI. While every other foundation model company was racing to build bigger transformers and consume more compute, Ramin went the other direction. Liquid foundation models cut the exponential energy cost of AI down to linear — same output quality, a fraction of the hardware. They run on phones, laptops, and cars. No data center required. Today his models are downloaded 1.4 million times per…