Cringely Returns After Three-Year Hiatus, Teases AI Architecture Patent

Veteran tech columnist Robert X. Cringely has resumed writing after going silent since 2022. He spent the intervening years co-founding 2Brains, an AI startup whose architecture and patents he says are now filed, with a small team continuing development while he returns to publishing.

His comeback piece, due this week, will argue that the prevailing trillion-dollar bet driving the current AI industry is misdirected, and that 2Brains has patented and built an architectural alternative. Cringely is not committing to a regular cadence, saying he will post when he has something substantive to share.

The note is largely a reintroduction for longtime readers from his InfoWorld and PBS days and newcomers alike, signaling that the substantive technical critique of mainstream AI architecture is what follows.