Welcome! I'm Meghana.
I am an MS in AI graduate from the School of Computer Science, CMU, and I am currently working as an Applied Scientist at an early-stage startup improving enterprise LLMs.
Like many of you, I'm fascinated by the speed and scale at which AI is evolving - what a time to be alive! But keeping pace hasn’t been easy – weekly model upgrades, technical reports, X posts announcing that yesterday’s big thing is dead today, and an arXiv tbr that only keeps getting bigger! There is constant FOMO about whether I am keeping up and what’s worse — sometimes, I’m left wondering whether I'm focusing on what truly matters.
I’m launching The Next Token to help make sense of it all. A public journal where I will dig into the details, connect the dots, and try to understand the engineering decisions shaping these technologies. While the core focus will always be on how things actually work – I'll also share some hot takes and what-ifs along the way. Also, I promise to be technical. This is not a marketing blog :P
The idea is to get better at getting better, and you guys are welcome to join along.
