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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 •

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Olmo 3: America’s truly open reasoning models

We present Olmo 3, our next family of fully open, leading language models.

Nov 20 •

Why AI writing is mid

How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).

Nov 16 •

Interview: Ant Group's open model ambitions

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

Nov 12 •

1:17:48

Opening the black box of character training

Some new research from me!

Nov 10 •

Interconnects

Interconnects

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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Artifacts Log: Monthly recaps of open models

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 •

and

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 •

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Latest open artifacts (#14): NVIDIA's rise, "Swiss & UAE DeepSeek," and a resurgence of open data

While Qwen takes some rest, others continue to fuel the open model space.

Sep 11 •

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Latest open artifacts (#13): The abundance era of open models

Mostly thanks to Qwen, but now we're spoiled for choice and winds are shifting.

Aug 11 •

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Interviews: Discussions with leading AI researchers

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Interview: Ant Group's open model ambitions

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

Nov 12 •

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 •

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Interviewing Eugene Vinitsky on self-play for self-driving and what else people do with RL

#13. Reinforcement learning fundamentals and scaling.

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Interviewing OLMo 2 leads: Open secrets of training language models

#12 What we have learned and are going to do next.

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Interconnects

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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