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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, researchers, and investors.

Latest posts

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

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    Podcast #19

  2. The current balance of power in open models

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    The expanded form of a testimony I prepared for Congress.

  3. Why I still haven’t bought into true RSI

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    An “AI moderate’s” view on recent events and the trajectory of frontier models.

  4. Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    How to get up to speed on open models and their implications.

  5. One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    Some quick notes on a truly weird week.

  6. When will average people feel AI’s impact?

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    We’re <5 years into a compounding revolution which could take a century, and how the AI industry should manage this.

  7. Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses

    · interconnects.ai · Florian Brand

    The open model ecosystem continues to expand in its breadth

  8. Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    Nvidia wants you building your own model, not buying from Anthropic/OpenAI.

  9. GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    Hint: It’s really not a distillation story.

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

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    Reflections on AI's writing ability and how AI models get more capable.

  11. 5 useful things you'll learn in my new post-training textbook (shipping now!)

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    After a few long years of finding time to document my lessons from training open models, my post-training book is done!

  12. Lessons from the hacks

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    Musings on model alignment, what determines safety, and where we go from here.

  13. Introducing our Artifacts Hub and Adoption Dashboard

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    Scaling our curation and measurement of the open ecosystem.

  14. Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier

    · interconnects.ai · Florian Brand

    Capacity to train strong models is proliferating.

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

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    A podcast with Florian Brand.

  16. Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    The global implications on the AI ecosystem.

  17. 6 months to live for open models

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    The most serious test to date of open source AI’s viability is happening right now.

  18. Latest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystem

    · interconnects.ai · Florian Brand

    An assessment of the open ecosystem and the motivations behind releasing models

  19. GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    A capability threshold I've been carefully monitoring.

  20. Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake

    · interconnects.ai · Nathan Lambert

    This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.

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