Ashutosh Trivedi

By day I run VideoDB, where we build data infrastructure for machines that see. Before that, a decade in natural language processing and multi-agent systems: embeddings, summarization, reasoning, and the question of how emergence arises as an intelligent pattern.

My first training in formal structure was a Sanskrit grammatical tradition, long before computer science. That is why this site has a whole wing on Chitrakāvya, the Sanskrit practice of poems that are also diagrams and algorithms. Some questions never leave you.

What I care about

Nature first. I love nature, and alignment with it is what I seek: long treks through Himalayan terrain, meditation, music. Then beauty, philosophy, mathematics and science. Yoga is the oldest engineering manual for awareness I know of, and I read it next to papers on agents, memory and alignment.

Mathematics and nature are where most of my wonder lives: fractals and self-similarity, higher-order structure, and optimization, the question of what a system is really minimising when it looks like it is learning.

What you will find here

• Essays on the mind, yoga and the practice of awareness.
• AI, AGI and the society of agents: emergence, alignment, what comes next.
• Mathematics: fractals, higher-order structure, optimization, and the proofs I keep returning to.
• Side research I cannot put down.
• Notes from building, reading and walking in the mountains.