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Notes from inside China's AI labs

The distillation panic

Reading today's open-closed performance gap

My bets on open models, mid-2026

What I’ve been building: ATOM Report, post-training course, finishing my book, and ongoing research

The inevitable need for an open model consortium

Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering

Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed

Latest open artifacts (#20): New orgs! New types of models! With Nemotron Super, Sarvam, Cohere Transcribe, & others

Lossy self-improvement

GPT 5.4 is a big step for Codex

What comes next with open models

Dean Ball on open models and government control

Olmo Hybrid and future LLM architectures

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

How much does distillation really matter for Chinese LLMs?

Open models in perpetual catch-up

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

Why Nvidia builds open models with Bryan Catanzaro

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

Thoughts on the job market in the age of LLMs

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

Get Good at Agents

Use multiple models

Claude Code Hits Different

8 plots that explain the state of open models

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

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