Interconnects AI

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Interviews: Discussions with leading AI researchers

Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next
A podcast with Florian Brand.
 • Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand
49:04
Frontier post-training recipe review with Finbarr Timbers
"Interview" #18
 • Nathan Lambert
56:35
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.
 • Nathan Lambert and Dean W. Ball
35:35
Why Nvidia builds open models with Bryan Catanzaro
Interconnects interview #17 on the past, present, and future of the Nemotron project.
 • Nathan Lambert
1:07:41
Arcee AI goes all-in on open models built in the U.S.
Interconnects interview #16 to celebrate the release of Trinity Large.
 • Nathan Lambert
1:12:15
Interview: Ant Group's open model ambitions
Launching a new open model series. Interconnects Interview #15.
 • Nathan Lambert
1:17:48
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.
 • Nathan Lambert
1:14:40
Interviewing Eugene Vinitsky on self-play for self-driving and what else people do with RL
#13. Reinforcement learning fundamentals and scaling.
 • Nathan Lambert
1:09:22
Interviewing OLMo 2 leads: Open secrets of training language models
#12 What we have learned and are going to do next.
 • Nathan Lambert
1:12:42
Interviewing Finbarr Timbers on the "We are So Back" Era of Reinforcement Learning
Listen now | Interconnects interview #11. An overview on the past, present, and future of RL.
 • Nathan Lambert and Finbarr Timbers
1:08:32
Interviewing Tim Dettmers on open-source AI: Agents, scaling, quantization and what's next
Listen now | Interconnects interview #10. Catching up with one of the leaders of open-source AI.
 • Nathan Lambert
1:15:45
Interviewing Andrew Carr of Cartwheel on the State of Generative AI
Listen now | Interconnects interview #9. Creativity of and with AI, AI for motion, robotic models, Claude computer use, and all the relevant topics.
 • Nathan Lambert
54:09
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