Technical Analysis — October 20, 2026 Next-Concept Modeling (NCM) is a language modeling architecture introduced by researchers from Hazy Research at Stanford University. It proposes a significant shift in how AI models generate text. Instead of producing one word or token after another, as traditional autoregressive LLMs do, NCM constructs a hierarchical representation of the response, starting with an abstract structure and progressively refining its details. The central idea is:...