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InterconnectsVoicesLatest open artifacts (#25): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, American-made models, and new regulatory controls in the US & China The geopolitics of open-weight AI are accelerating again this fall, as we would expect with the risks of all AI systems (open and closed) rising rapidly.
InterconnectsVoicesMeta shakes up the frontiers, open and closed This has been a week where the balance of American open-weight models took a step change back toward the frontier.
InterconnectsVoicesI expect rapid progress but not towards general superintelligence I’ve often been surprised when I hear from top researchers in industry that they think AI will be better than them at their job in a few years, and I didn’t really know why I doubted it.
InterconnectsVoicesThe Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken I’ve had one too many discussions on the cyber risks of open models — where someone assumes that either banning open models happens in a silo (and bad actors will somehow actually be stopped) or that…
InterconnectsVoicesDebating RSI, the US-China Gap, and Jaggedness with JS Denain of Epoch AI This episode is with Jean-Stanislas “JS” Denain of Epoch AI, who leads their Insights Team and is one of the people I find myself debating the state and trajectory of AI with more and more.
InterconnectsVoicesThe current balance of power in open models I was recently invited to brief a group of Congressional members and staff on the state of open-weight models in the lens of U.S.-China competition.
InterconnectsVoicesWhy I still haven’t bought into true RSI We’re in an era where a few organizations are using thousands of concurrent agents to improve their processes and output.
InterconnectsVoicesOpen-Source AI & Open Models Reading List Hey all! I’ve been prepping for some public-audience and policy-facing writing on open models, so I figured I would share my research materials. There’s lots of wonderful stuff in here.
InterconnectsVoicesOne resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire As AI became more powerful, it was inevitable that a different, growing group would start to take AI safety more seriously – what we did not know ahead of time, is which set of views they latched…
InterconnectsVoicesWhen will average people feel AI’s impact? Housekeeping: Paid subscribers to Interconnects now get a permanent 40% discount on my book when purchasing at Manning.com. Access the code at the Interconnects perks page .
InterconnectsVoicesLatest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses Avid Artifacts readers know that we have been covering not only models but also their licenses for quite some time.
InterconnectsVoicesTeaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens Housekeeping: No voiceover for this post as I’m traveling. The oldest comparison people try to make is how what’s happening with open models compares to foundational open-source software projects…
InterconnectsVoicesGLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier Housekeeping: I’m traveling so cannot make a voiceover for this post. EDIT — I added a bullet point 5 on the Chinese data industry after sending the email out.
InterconnectsVoicesI wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better? There are a lot of criticisms of AI writing, but most of them are focused on more creative, high-voice writing like this blog.
InterconnectsVoices5 useful things you'll learn in my new post-training textbook (shipping now!) Housekeeping: No voiceover on another quick “launch” post. More essays soon! After a few long years of finding time to document my lessons from training open models, my post-training book is done!
InterconnectsVoicesLessons from the hacks The recent run of cyberattacks by in-development frontier models has got me thinking a lot about how our current incentive systems are not well suited for such fast technological transitions.
InterconnectsVoicesIntroducing our Artifacts Hub and Adoption Dashboard No voiceover for this quick post, but a quick video version is here . We’re expanding our open models coverage into standalone projects that let you go deeper on the state of the open model…
InterconnectsVoicesLatest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier Consolidation has been one of the paths that many astute observers predicted for the near-future of labs training models.
InterconnectsVoicesOpen models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next Exciting news! My book trying to share post-training knowledge with the world is done and shipping soon. Order on Manning or Amazon . Thanks for the support.
InterconnectsVoicesKimi K3: The open-weights escalation On Thursday July 16th, Moonshot AI released their latest flagship model Kimi K3 . K3 is a 2.8T parameter MoE model which will have its weights released on July 27th.
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