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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 […]

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Open models: Hot or Not with Nathan Lambert & Florian Brand
A recording from Nathan Lambert's live video
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December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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2025 Interconnects year in review
Three years writing every week about AI.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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2025 Open Models Year in Review
The first recap of a long year in the trenches of open models.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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New Talk: Building Olmo 3 Think
Re-recording my NeurIPS talks in one mega-take.
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December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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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.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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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.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Why AI writing is mid
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
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November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Interview: Ant Group's open model ambitions
Launching a new open model series. Interconnects Interview #15.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Opening the black box of character training
Some new research from me!
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November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking
Quick thoughts on another fantastic open model from a rapidly rising Chinese lab.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Burning out
The international AI industry's collective risk.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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How to scale RL
The most covetable research.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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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.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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The State of Open Models
Reflections on a crazy year in open models. (My talk at The Curve).
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October 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Thoughts on The Curve
The conference and the trajectory.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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ChatGPT: The Agentic App
ChatGPT's long awaited move into user monetization.
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October 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Thinking, Searching, and Acting
A reflection on reasoning models.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Coding as the epicenter of AI progress and the path to general agents
GPT-5-Codex, adoption, denial, peak performance, and everyday gains.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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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.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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On China's open source AI trajectory
Notes and predictions for the next phase of Chinese (open) AI models.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Ranking the Chinese Open Model Builders
From the obvious names to those to keep an eye on.
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August 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Contra Dwarkesh on Continual Learning
Don't try to make your airplane too much like a bird.
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August 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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.
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August 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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What I've been reading (#2): More on Kimi K2, how to build a bad research center, Pretraining with RL, and sporks of AGI
A quiet summer is all you need.
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August 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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GPT-5 and the arc of progress
Overpromising will always lead to some sort of underdelivering, but what we're getting is still phenomenal.
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August 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM