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Nuclear Fusion, No Power Lines
Jonathan Frankle returns three years after teaching us data mixology with a sharper electrical metaphor: large language models are fusion-grade intelligence, but most organizations still lack the grid—specification, testing discipline, composable tools, and applications that connect raw capability to human intent.
Originating episode · Nuclear Fusion, No Power Lines · Invisible Machines · Jonathan Frankle · S7E11 · June 2026
The model is astonishing, the wiring is not.
—Josh Tyson on Frankle’s fusion metaphor · Invisible Machines · S7E11
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Jonathan Frankle · Chief AI Scientist, Databricks
Nuclear Fusion, No Power Lines · Invisible Machines
UXM Article
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UX Magazine Staff
Nuclear Fusion, No Power Lines
Companion essay on fusion-grade models without grid infrastructure, specification as design work, and the through-line from Mosaic mixology to Databricks scale.
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UX Magazine Staff
The Mixologist Mindset: Jonathan Frankle in 2023
Frankle’s first Invisible Machines visit on data mixology, benchmark skepticism, and climbing the ladder from prompts to pre-training—the method behind the fusion metaphor.
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