https://toddwbucy.github.io/toddwbucy_research_blog/tags/nested-learning/Recent content in Nested-Learning on Todd W. Bucy — Research BlogHugoen-usThu, 29 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0600https://toddwbucy.github.io/toddwbucy_research_blog/blog/2026/01/google-didnt-go-silent-you-stopped-looking/Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0600https://toddwbucy.github.io/toddwbucy_research_blog/blog/2026/01/google-didnt-go-silent-you-stopped-looking/<p><img src="https://toddwbucy.github.io/toddwbucy_research_blog/images/blog/google-didnt-go-silent/image1.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p><em>A response to Delanoe Pirard&rsquo;s &ldquo;Transformers Are Dead&rdquo; and &ldquo;A 170M Model Beats GPT-4&rdquo;</em></p> <p>In December 2025, Delanoe Pirard published two articles that crystallized a question the ML community had been asking for a year: If Titans is so good, why has Google gone silent?</p> <p>The answer is this: Titans is one component of a seven-paper research program, not a standalone architecture. Google didn&rsquo;t go silent. The community stopped looking for the rest of the papers.</p>