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Latest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystem
An assessment of the open ecosystem and the motivations behind releasing models
 • Florian Brand and Nathan Lambert
GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents
A capability threshold I've been carefully monitoring.
 • Nathan Lambert
Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake
This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.
 • Nathan Lambert and Kevin Xu
State of the blog, mid-2026
About 3 years since I started writing weekly.
 • Nathan Lambert
Frontier post-training recipe review with Finbarr Timbers
"Interview" #18
 • Nathan Lambert
56:35
Welcome to the AGI era of AI governance
It's a one-way door and we weren't ready for it.
 • Nathan Lambert
Claude Fable 5 and new AI safety fables
One step further into the power politics of frontier AI systems.
 • Nathan Lambert
Farewell Ai2
This was my last week at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), where I got the great privilege to work on the Olmo models, to grow, to learn, and to have…
 • Nathan Lambert
Open and closed models are on different exponentials
Where marginally higher intelligence drives value, and where it doesn't.
 • Nathan Lambert

May 2026

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