Axel's introduction

Axel Leon

27 Aug 2025 — 1 min read

Welcome. My name is Axel Leon: a tech startup co-founder, an independent ML researcher, and an avid explorer of wide-ranging disciplines within the sciences and history. This blog is where I bring together some of my thoughts connecting artificial intelligence, mathematics, and society. Here, I’ll take you inside the algorithms and breakthroughs that power AI, explain the economic and political shifts they trigger, and also uncover how nations and industries can adapt to these transformations.

Alongside this, you’ll find occasional deliberations on business, economics, and philosophy — complementary explorations that will emphasize how qualities such as perspicuity and fortitude are as essential to personal growth as they are to global transformation.

My goal here is simple: to give you discernment that is both intellectually rigorous and practically useful. If you’ve ever sought to understand how AI really works beneath the surface, how it is reshaping the landscape, and more broadly how you can adapt and be part of an advancing world, this blog was written with you in mind.

Expect precision, strategy, and prescience — delivered with rigour but never obscurity. The goal is not merely to understand the future, but to stand prepared to lead it forward.

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