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Thierry Schellenbach Turned a Stubborn Feed Into a Global Stream
A fashion network gave him a scaling problem. A transatlantic move gave him the room to solve it. Now the self-taught programmer behind Stream is building the plumbing for conversations most users never think about.
Integral AI
Integral AI is a Japan-US startup building foundation world models - AI systems meant to learn, plan, and act in the real world the way people do, with an emphasis on energy efficiency and continuous, autonomous skill learning. Founded in 2021 by ex-Google AI leaders Jad Tarifi and Nima Asgharbeygi, the company positions its interactive world models as infrastructure for an AI-based economy, spanning robotics, universal simulators, and multimodal interfaces. In December 2025 it made headlines by claiming to have tested the world's first AGI-capable model, TOWA.