The Who's Who of AI

“A big day for open model supporters in the U.S. Blog: thinkingmachines.ai/news/introdu... Model card: huggingface.co/thinkingmach...”

“Thinking Machines has a real model — 975B multimodal audio + image input it’s a generalist model. built for easy customization, TM has a great finetuning API audio up to 20 minutes, 1M token context for text thinkingmachines.ai/news/introdu...”

“If you're looking for the latest adoption data on open models in US v China v globally, we built a small dashboard with the big picture and per-org numbers. US's role is slowly growing, but still way behind China/Qwen. dashboard.interconnects.ai”

“6 months to live for open models Staring down the barrel of policy action that could make open models a permanent second class citizen. We need to a) win on the distillation issue and b) form a coalition www.interconnects.ai/p/6-months-t...”

“It is wild to me that one could ban open models. Stopping open models stops progress, locking everything up in the hands of the few. The frequency this debate comes up is way too high. We need open models - they keep the closed ones accountable. www.interco…”

“Where Kimi K3 puts the balance of power — and bends the trajectory — of the AI ecosystem. www.interconnects.ai/p/kimi-k3-th...”

“Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation www.interconnects.ai/p/kimi-k3-the-… (some interesting thought here) #AI #OpenWeights #China #Kimi”

“How distillation is used today and what performance uplift it gives to open models (a rant) natolambert.substack.com/p/how-distil...”

“If recent events with Kimi K3 have finally convinced you that you need to try and understand how the Chinese labs approach AI - and how it differs than the SF center of power - you should read my post from a few months ago: www.interconnects.ai/p/notes-from...”

“New lecture! This one is a recap of a bunch of history of preferences, the nature of rewards, how RLHF is formulated, which were once seen as central problems in the field. How much as changed. Books coming soon :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2tv...”

“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. YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsBy... Interconnects: www.interconnects.ai/p/open-model...”

“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. YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsBy... Interconnects: www.interconnects.ai/p/open-model...”

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“Physical orders from Manning will ship in 1-2 weeks, and Amazon a week or so after. Thanks for your support! Website: rlhfbook.com Buy on Amazon: amzn.to/4cwCDJQ Buy on Manning: hubs.la/Q03TsMBq0 Course landing page: rlhfbook.com/course Course Playlist: www…”