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Interconnects

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Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens

InterconnectsVoicesTeaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens Nvidia wants you building your own model, not buying from Anthropic/OpenAI.

August 17
GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier

InterconnectsVoicesGLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier Hint: It’s really not a distillation story.

August 14
I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?

InterconnectsVoicesI wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better? Reflections on AI's writing ability and how AI models get more capable.

August 12
5 useful things you'll learn in my new post-training textbook (shipping now!)

InterconnectsVoices5 useful things you'll learn in my new post-training textbook (shipping now!) After a few long years of finding time to document my lessons from training open models, my post-training book is done!

August 10
Lessons from the hacks

InterconnectsVoicesLessons from the hacks Musings on model alignment, what determines safety, and where we go from here.

August 9
Introducing our Artifacts Hub and Adoption Dashboard

InterconnectsVoicesIntroducing our Artifacts Hub and Adoption Dashboard Scaling our curation and measurement of the open ecosystem.

August 3
Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier

InterconnectsVoicesLatest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier Capacity to train strong models is proliferating.

August 2
Interconnects

InterconnectsVoicesOpen models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next A podcast with Florian Brand.

July 22
Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation

InterconnectsVoicesKimi K3: The open-weights escalation The global implications on the AI ecosystem.

July 20
6 months to live for open models

InterconnectsVoices6 months to live for open models The most serious test to date of open source AI’s viability is happening right now.

July 12
Latest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystem

InterconnectsVoicesLatest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystem An assessment of the open ecosystem and the motivations behind releasing models

June 28
GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents

InterconnectsVoicesGLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents A capability threshold I've been carefully monitoring.

June 22
Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake

InterconnectsVoicesBanning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.

June 19
State of the blog, mid-2026

InterconnectsVoicesState of the blog, mid-2026 About 3 years since I started writing weekly.

June 17
Frontier post-training recipe review with Finbarr Timbers

InterconnectsVoicesFrontier post-training recipe review with Finbarr Timbers "Interview" #18

June 16
Welcome to the AGI era of AI governance

InterconnectsVoicesWelcome to the AGI era of AI governance It's a one-way door and we weren't ready for it.

June 14
Claude Fable 5 and new AI safety fables

InterconnectsVoicesClaude Fable 5 and new AI safety fables One step further into the power politics of frontier AI systems.

June 9
Farewell Ai2

InterconnectsVoicesFarewell Ai2 This was my last week at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), where I got the great privilege to work on the Olmo models, to grow, to learn, and to have broad lasting impacts.

June 2
Open and closed models are on different exponentials

InterconnectsVoicesOpen and closed models are on different exponentials Where marginally higher intelligence drives value, and where it doesn't.

June 1
Some ideas for what comes next, May 2026

InterconnectsVoicesSome ideas for what comes next, May 2026 Gemini Flash 3.5, Mythos, open-closed balance, America's open-source surge, emerging power struggles and more.

May 26