Anika Somaia
I'm a senior at Columbia studying Computer Science and Math, and a Neo Scholar (2025 cohort).
Previously, I worked on behavioural evals for frontier models at DeepMind, AI observability products at LangChain, and generative video models at Pika.
I spend a lot of time thinking and learning about the exponential trajectory of frontier intelligence. Some thoughts on this I keep returning to: on hard takeoff, life after work, the already written future of AI, and the psychological effects of acceleration in the next decade.
I enjoy pretty much anything outdoors, especially snowboarding and kitesurfing.
Latest Posts
3/30/2026
You're Not Losing Your Mind
AI does not make us dumber like we think
3/21/2025
Nobel Laureates Are 22 Times More Likely to Be Performers
How breakthrough thinking develops
2/7/2025
How Markov Chains and Recursion Decide Every Tennis Game
In tennis you can lose more points than you win and still take the match. I think about this a lot
Recent Reads
- Breakneck by Dan Wang
- How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath