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Lossy self-improvement

The case for why self-improvement is real but it doesn't lead to fast takeoff.

Mar 22 • Nathan Lambert

GPT 5.4 is a big step for Codex

On evaluating and understanding the frontier of agents, and why I still turn to Claude.

Mar 18 • Nathan Lambert

What comes next with open models

Markets, capabilities, cope, and bewilderment in the industrialization of language models.

Mar 16 • Nathan Lambert

Dean Ball on open models and government control

Subtle precedents on the future of open models set by the unfolding Anthropic v. Department of War case.

Mar 6 • Nathan Lambert and Dean W. Ball

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Olmo Hybrid and future LLM architectures

The latest Olmo model and discussions at the frontier of open-source post training tools.

Mar 5 • 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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Latest open artifacts (#19): Qwen 3.5, GLM 5, MiniMax 2.5 — Chinese labs' latest push of the frontier

Welcome to the year of the horse!

Mar 3 • Florian Brand and Nathan Lambert

How much does distillation really matter for Chinese LLMs?

Reacting to Anthropic's post on "distillation attacks."

Feb 24 • Nathan Lambert

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

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Roundups of the most cutting edge open models and datasets.

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Reasoning Models

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 (#19): Qwen 3.5, GLM 5, MiniMax 2.5 — Chinese labs' latest push of the frontier

Welcome to the year of the horse!

Mar 3 • Florian Brand and Nathan Lambert

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

Interviews: Discussions with leading AI researchers

35:35

Dean Ball on open models and government control

Subtle precedents on the future of open models set by the unfolding Anthropic v. Department of War case.

Mar 6 • Nathan Lambert and Dean W. Ball

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

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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