Archive - Interconnects

8 plots that explain the state of open models

Measuring the impact of Qwen, DeepSeek, Llama, GPT-OSS, Nemotron, and all of the new entrants to the ecosystem.

Jan 7 • 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

December 2025

Open models: Hot or Not with Nathan Lambert & Florian Brand

A recording from Nathan Lambert's live video

Dec 18, 2025 • Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand

37:37

2025 Interconnects year in review

Three years writing every week about AI.

Dec 18, 2025 • Nathan Lambert

2025 Open Models Year in Review

The first recap of a long year in the trenches of open models.

Dec 14, 2025 • Florian Brand and Nathan Lambert

New Talk: Building Olmo 3 Think

Re-recording my NeurIPS talks in one mega-take.

Dec 10, 2025 • Nathan Lambert

1:02:21

November 2025

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

Olmo 3: America’s truly open reasoning models

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

Nov 20, 2025 • Nathan Lambert

Why AI writing is mid

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

Nov 16, 2025 • Nathan Lambert

Interview: Ant Group's open model ambitions

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

Nov 12, 2025 • Nathan Lambert

1:17:48

Opening the black box of character training

Some new research from me!

Nov 10, 2025 • Nathan Lambert

5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking

Quick thoughts on another fantastic open model from a rapidly rising Chinese lab.

Nov 6, 2025 • Nathan Lambert

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