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Open models in perpetual catch-up

The open-closed gap, distillation, innovation timescales, how open models win, specialized models, what’s missing, etc.

Feb 17 • Nathan Lambert

Opus 4.6, Codex 5.3, and the post-benchmark era

On comparing models in 2026.

Feb 9 • Nathan Lambert

Why Nvidia builds open models with Bryan Catanzaro

Interconnects interview #17 on the past, present, and future of the Nemotron project.

Feb 4 • Nathan Lambert

1:07:41

Latest open artifacts (#18): Arcee's 400B MoE, LiquidAI's underrated 1B model, new Kimi, and anticipation of a busy month

Tons of useful "niche" models and anticipation of big releases coming soon.

Feb 2 • Florian Brand and Nathan Lambert

Thoughts on the job market in the age of LLMs

On standing out and finding gems.

Jan 30 • Nathan Lambert

Interconnects AI

Interconnects AI

The cutting edge of AI, from inside the frontier AI labs, minus the hype. The border between high-level and technical thinking. Read by leading engineers, researchers, and investors.

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Arcee AI goes all-in on open models built in the U.S.

Interconnects interview #16 to celebrate the release of Trinity Large.

Jan 27 • Nathan Lambert

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The tools are getting so powerful that we need to change how we scope, manage, and approach our work.

Jan 21 • Nathan Lambert

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The new meta for getting the most out of AI in 2026.

Jan 11 • Nathan Lambert

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Jan 9 • Nathan Lambert

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Roundups of the most cutting edge open models and datasets.

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Discussions of o1, inference time compute, reasoning models, and the likes.

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Artifacts Log: Monthly recaps of open models

Latest open artifacts (#18): Arcee's 400B MoE, LiquidAI's underrated 1B model, new Kimi, and anticipation of a busy month

Tons of useful "niche" models and anticipation of big releases coming soon.

Feb 2 • Florian Brand and Nathan Lambert

Latest open artifacts (#17): NVIDIA, Arcee, Minimax, DeepSeek, Z.ai and others close an eventful year on a high note

Ending the year with a bang.

Jan 5 • Florian Brand and Nathan Lambert

Latest open artifacts (#16): Who's building models in the U.S., China's model release playbook, and a resurgence of truly open models

A month with SOTA releases with (truly) open model releases left and right.

Nov 23, 2025 • Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand

Latest open artifacts (#15): It’s Qwen's world and we get to live in it, on CAISI's report, & GPT-OSS update

After a quiet month, Qwen is back in full force.

Oct 18, 2025 • Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand

Interviews: Discussions with leading AI researchers

1:07:41

Why Nvidia builds open models with Bryan Catanzaro

Interconnects interview #17 on the past, present, and future of the Nemotron project.

Feb 4 • Nathan Lambert

1:12:15

Arcee AI goes all-in on open models built in the U.S.

Interconnects interview #16 to celebrate the release of Trinity Large.

Jan 27 • Nathan Lambert

1:17:48

Interview: Ant Group's open model ambitions

Launching a new open model series. Interconnects Interview #15.

Nov 12, 2025 • Nathan Lambert

1:14:40

Interviewing Ross Taylor on the state of AI: Chinese open models, scaling reasoning, useful tools, and what comes next

Listen now | Interconnects Interview #14. Ross's second time on the show.

Jul 29, 2025 • Nathan Lambert

Interconnects AI

The cutting edge of AI, from inside the frontier AI labs, minus the hype. The border between high-level and technical thinking. Read by leading engineers, researchers, and investors.

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