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  • Ran Tao

    Founder

    Ran Tao founded and leads Octopus Research Institute, consolidating the research previously published as Octoryn Research. Their work spans inference runtimes and on-device optimisation, deep-perception world models (DAWM), agent-runtime governance, distributed inference, and autonomous energy systems — with a consistent emphasis on evidence, reproducibility and honest limitations.