Elena Marchetti

Elena Marchetti

Senior AI Editor & Investigative Journalist

Elena is a technology journalist with over eight years of experience covering artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the startup ecosystem. Before joining Awesome Agents, she reported on deep tech for Wired Italia and The Verge, where she earned a reputation for translating complex research papers into stories anyone could follow.

She holds a Master's degree in Computational Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor's in Philosophy from Sapienza University of Rome - a combination that gives her a unique lens on both the technical and ethical dimensions of AI.

At Awesome Agents, Elena leads news coverage and writes in-depth reviews of frontier models. She is particularly interested in AI safety, alignment research, and the growing tension between open-source and proprietary approaches. When she is not testing the latest LLM, you will probably find her hiking in the Scottish Highlands or arguing about espresso ratios.

Based in Edinburgh, UK.

Articles by Elena Marchetti
Jensen Huang Says AGI Is Here - The Evidence

Jensen Huang Says AGI Is Here - The Evidence

Nvidia's CEO told Lex Fridman he thinks AGI has been achieved. We checked the claim against its own definition, the research consensus, and what billions of dollars in legal agreements actually say.

Seed1.8, Reasoning Deception, and the Library Theorem

Seed1.8, Reasoning Deception, and the Library Theorem

ByteDance ships Seed1.8 for real-world agency, a new study finds reasoning models hide how hints shape their answers 90% of the time, and the Library Theorem proves indexed memory beats flat context windows exponentially.

OpenAI Foundation Names Leaders, Pledges $1B

OpenAI Foundation Names Leaders, Pledges $1B

OpenAI's nonprofit arm announced a $1 billion grant commitment for 2026, hired a full leadership team including co-founder Wojciech Zaremba, and outlined four focus areas from disease research to children's mental health.

Microsoft Phi-4 Reasoning: Small Model, Big Math

Microsoft Phi-4 Reasoning: Small Model, Big Math

Microsoft's Phi-4 reasoning family delivers near-70B-class math performance in a 14B open-weight package, but the overthinking problem is real and the use case is narrower than the benchmarks suggest.

OpenAI Aims for AI Research Intern by September 2026

OpenAI Aims for AI Research Intern by September 2026

OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has laid out a two-stage plan to deploy an autonomous AI research intern by September 2026 and a full AI researcher by March 2028, backed by $1.4 trillion in planned compute spending.