Collinear AI’s Blog

Through the Valley of Reasoning: What Small Models Teach Us About Learning

NeurIPS paper on knowledge distillation scaling laws for small foundation models

Oct 9 • 

Muyu

, 

Tsach Mackey

, 

Anand Kumar

, 

Meghana A Rajeev

, and 

Nazneen Rajani

Introducing Collinear Simulations: Steerable Personas for AI Agent Testing

TraitBasis, inspired from mech intrep, gives high-fidelity user personas for comprehensive agent testing

Oct 7 • 

Meghana A Rajeev

, 

Tsach Mackey

, 

Muyu

, 

Anand Kumar

, and 

Nazneen Rajani

2

Collinear Newsletter #7 | Notes on Improving AI

A deep dive into how leading companies are deploying AI agents reliably in production

Oct 2 • 

Soumyadeep Bakshi

 and 

Nazneen Rajani

5

September 2025

Introducing Curator Evals: A Benchmark for High-quality Post-training Data Curation

High-quality datasets are the foundation of better language models.

Sep 2 • 

Muhammad Ali Shafique

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Tsach Mackey

, 

Meghana A Rajeev

, 

Soumyadeep Bakshi

, 

Muyu

, 

Anand Kumar

, and 

Nazneen Rajani

2

August 2025

Collinear AI Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

Making safe, high-performing AI accessible through trusted enterprise infrastructure

Aug 25 • 

Soumyadeep Bakshi

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You Can’t Hire Your Way to Model Alignment

Why the Global AI talent shortage Is undermining enterprise model alignment, and what you can do instead

Aug 13 • 

Marc Moring

, 

Soumyadeep Bakshi

, and 

Nazneen Rajani

2

Leveling the Playing Field: Livecodebench’s Big Bug Fix

Three major fixes that reshaped competitive coding scores and why your numbers may look very different now

Aug 12 • 

Muyu

, 

Tsach Mackey

, 

Muhammad Ali Shafique

, 

Anand Kumar

, 

Meghana A Rajeev

, and 

Nazneen Rajani

5

OpenAI's gpt-oss on LiveCodeBench: A Competitive Programming Deep Dive

tl;dr: the gpt-oss-20b is a strong model for competitive coding but is >3x sample inefficient compared to deespseek-r1-0528

Aug 6 • 

Muyu

, 

Tsach Mackey

, 

Anand Kumar

, 

Meghana A Rajeev

, and 

Nazneen Rajani

2

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Newsletter #6 | Notes on Improving AI Performance

A deep dive into how leading companies are deploying AI agents reliably in production

Aug 5 • 

Nazneen Rajani

 and 

Soumyadeep Bakshi

July 2025

Cats confuse LRMs: Exposing blind spots in SOTA Models

Irrelevant, universal phrases like "Interesting fact: Cats sleep most of their lives" appended to math problems can break AI models

Jul 22 • 

Meghana A Rajeev

, 

Jahnavi Jambholkar

, and 

Nazneen Rajani

2

Data Curation: The secret sauce for enterprise AI excellence

How Collinear AI's Reward Models Transform Training Efficiency and Model Performance

Jul 14 • 

Meghana A Rajeev

, 

Tsach Mackey

, and 

Nazneen Rajani

June 2025

Newsletter #5 | Notes on Improving AI Performance

Hi AI innovators,

Jun 20 • 

Jahnavi Jambholkar

, 

Nazneen Rajani

, and 

Soumyadeep Bakshi

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