Yang Li
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Yang Li (Cosine AI): Sovereign AI & Niche Coding Models
Cosine AI co-founder Yang Li explains the lab's focus on state-of-the-art generalist coding plus niche languages like COBOL, Fortran and Ada, with fully air-gapped deployment for defense and financial-services customers. He recounts the founding story from a pub pre-ChatGPT, pushing OpenAI's fine-tuning limits and meeting Sam Altman, the UK Sovereign AI award of 500,000 GPU hours as the 'last unlock,' and the recent launch of one coding agent across every surface with swarm mode running 30-50 concurrent agents and reduced code slop.