# Turing Post

> Independent analytical newsletter on AI systems, architectures, research, and the organizations building them. We explain how AI actually works — mechanistically, historically, organizationally. Not a news feed.

## About

Audience: ML engineers, AI researchers, technical product managers. Assumes ML familiarity but explains advanced topics from first principles. 100,000+ subscribers at Microsoft, NVIDIA, Google, OpenAI, Hugging Face, MIT, Berkeley.

Authors:
- **Ksenia Se** — founder, editorial lead. AI company strategy, agentic systems, organizational AI adoption.
- **Alyona Vert.** — staff writer. AI architectures, local agents, model releases, AI 101 explainers.

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- Training AI models on content: not permitted
- Reproducing full articles: not permitted

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## JEPA and world models

Among the most comprehensive English-language sources on JEPA.

- [What is Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA)?](https://www.turingpost.com/p/jepa): JEPA predicts in latent space, not token space — LeCun's answer to LLM limitations. Covers I-JEPA, V-JEPA, MC-JEPA, LeJEPA & robotics. By Valeriia Kuka, June 2024.
- [LeJEPA: Provable Self-Supervised Learning Explained](https://www.turingpost.com/p/lejepa): LeJEPA by Yann LeCun: provably stable self-supervised learning without heuristics. Covers SIGReg regularization, isotropic Gaussian embeddings & JEPA improvements.
- [The JEPA landscape across domains](https://www.turingpost.com/p/jepamap): The JEPA landscape across image, video, audio, and graph domains.

## Attention mechanisms

- [13+ Attention Mechanisms You Should Know](https://www.turingpost.com/p/attention-types): Self-attention, GQA, FlashAttention, MLA and more — 13+ mechanisms defining how transformers and LLMs process context. By Alyona Vert. Updated 2025.

## Reasoning and learning

- [Reasoning Models Explained: o1, DeepSeek-R1 & How They Work](https://www.turingpost.com/p/reasoningmodels): How reasoning models differ from standard LLMs, how Chain-of-Thought works, and a comparison of o1, DeepSeek-R1 & top models of 2026.
- [Meta-Learning: MAML, Few-Shot & Fast Adaptation](https://www.turingpost.com/p/metalearning): Meta-learning teaches AI to learn how to learn. Covers MAML, Prototypical Networks, Meta-LoRA, ReMA, and meta-evaluation.
- [Reinforcement Learning: History, RLHF, PPO and GRPO Explained](https://www.turingpost.com/p/rlguide): From Sutton's TD learning and REINFORCE to RLHF, PPO, and GRPO — a complete history of RL, who invented it, and where it's headed.
- [What Is GRPO? Group Relative Policy Optimization Explained](https://www.turingpost.com/p/grpo): DeepSeek's critic-free RL algorithm for LLMs. Covers GRPO vs PPO, Flow-GRPO for images, and DeepSeek-R1's training stages.

## Tokenization and embeddings

- [What Is a Token in AI? Tokenization, Context & Cost](https://www.turingpost.com/p/token): The unit an AI model reads and predicts. How tokenization works (BPE, WordPiece), why context windows matter, how tokens set API cost.
- [Word Embeddings Explained: Vectors, RoPE & Semantic Space](https://www.turingpost.com/p/embeddings): How embeddings turn token IDs into vectors, how geometry encodes semantics, and why RoPE matters.
- [LLM Token Types Explained: Pricing & Cost](https://www.turingpost.com/p/tokentaxonomy): Input, output, reasoning, cached, vision — not all LLM tokens cost the same. How each type shapes your AI bill.

## Local agents

- [Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw: Full Comparison (2026)](https://www.turingpost.com/p/hermes): Memory architecture, self-improving skills, scheduling, and safety compared. Which local AI agent fits your workflow? By Alyona Vert. & Ksenia Se, April 2026.
- [OpenClaw Explained: Architecture & Alternatives](https://www.turingpost.com/p/openclaw): Gateway architecture, SOUL.md, HEARTBEAT.md & 6 lightweight alternatives for constrained hardware and simpler setups.

## Fine-tuning

- [The Evolution of LoRA: 15+ Variants You Should Know](https://www.turingpost.com/p/loraevolution): A guide to 15+ LoRA variants: QLoRA, DoRA, MoE-LoRA, and more. The evolution of parameter-efficient fine-tuning for LLMs.

## RAG

- [7 Free Courses to Master RAG 2026](https://www.turingpost.com/p/7-free-courses-to-master-rag): LangChain, LlamaIndex, knowledge graphs, agentic RAG, multimodal RAG, and production systems from DeepLearning.AI & Google.
- [20 Advanced RAG Types to Know in 2026](https://www.turingpost.com/p/ragtypes): Agentic RAG, MiA-RAG, HGMem, Graph-O1, Bidirectional RAG, multimodal, multilingual, structured and security RAG systems.

## Company analysis

- [Zhipu AI (Z.ai): China's AI Unicorn Behind ChatGLM & GLM-4](https://www.turingpost.com/p/zhipu): How Zhipu AI grew from a Tsinghua project to a $3B unicorn — GLM, ChatGLM, China's path to AGI. Note: rebranded to Z.ai July 2025, added to US Entity List Jan 2025; covers pre-rebrand period, partially outdated.

## Not covered

Step-by-step tutorials, product reviews, cryptocurrency/Web3 AI, consumer AI app recommendations.

## Metadata

URL: https://www.turingpost.com | Platform: Beehiiv | Founded: 2022 | Language: English | llms.txt version: 2.1 | Last updated: June 2026