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by Nathan Lambert
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  • Meta shakes up the frontiers, open and closed

    October 17, 2026 · 12 min

    This has been a week where the balance of American open-weight models took a step change back toward the frontier. Meta took the lead of this charge with Muse Spark Open, which is now the strongest American-made open model by quite some…

  • The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken

    October 6, 2026 · 9 min

    I’ve had one too many discussions on the cyber risks of open models — where someone assumes that either banning open models happens in a silo (and bad actors will somehow actually be stopped) or that China is a threat and doesn’t care…

  • Debating RSI, the US-China Gap, and Jaggedness with JS Denain of Epoch AI

    September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    This episode is with Jean-Stanislas “JS” Denain of Epoch AI, who leads their Insights Team and is one of the people I find myself debating the state and trajectory of AI with more and more. We’ve had follow-on discussions of many of my…

  • The current balance of power in open models

    September 21, 2026 · 18 min

    I was recently invited to brief a group of Congressional members and staff on the state of open-weight models in the lens of U.S.-China competition. I’m sharing my prepared remarks as a state of the union on open models that is accessible…

  • Why I still haven’t bought into true RSI

    September 19, 2026 · 10 min

    We’re in an era where a few organizations are using thousands of concurrent agents to improve their processes and output. These organizations happen to be just the frontier AI labs, in particular OpenAI and Anthropic. In the last few…

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  • One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire

    September 10, 2026 · 11 min

    As AI became more powerful, it was inevitable that a different, growing group would start to take AI safety more seriously – what we did not know ahead of time, is which set of views they latched onto. We have seen that some of the most…

  • When will average people feel AI’s impact?

    September 9, 2026 · 9 min

    Housekeeping: Paid subscribers to Interconnects now get a permanent 40% discount on my book when purchasing at Manning.com. Access the code at the Interconnects perks page. Many AI optimists tend to compare what is happening in this AI…

  • I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?

    August 12, 2026 · 13 min

    There are a lot of criticisms of AI writing, but most of them are focused on more creative, high-voice writing like this blog. Those — including my own piece — often argue that it is because good writing is high-voice, has a point of view…

  • Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next

    July 22, 2026 · 49 min

    Exciting news! My book trying to share post-training knowledge with the world is done and shipping soon. Order on Manning or Amazon. Thanks for the support. It’s currently the #1 AI book on Amazon :). Nathan and Florian sit down to discuss…

  • Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation

    July 20, 2026 · 20 min

    On Thursday July 16th, Moonshot AI released their latest flagship model Kimi K3. K3 is a 2.8T parameter MoE model which will have its weights released on July 27th. Much of this article follows as a reflection on the state of the…

  • GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents

    June 22, 2026 · 9 min

    Housekeeping: Following my “State of the blog” post last week, noting a slight increase in paid features, it’s a good time to remind folks that I offer group subscriptions with larger discounts proportional to the number of seats. I also…

  • Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake

    June 19, 2026 · 7 min

    This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience. The gatekeepers — the many media outlets we pitched it to — passed on publishing it. Luckily, we have our own platforms to…

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Audio essays about the latest developments in AI and interviews with leading scientists in the field. Breaking the hype, understanding what's under the hood, and telling stories. www.interconnects.ai