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Reaction converging Muse Wonder Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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Established Safety & security Analysis 15d ago
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cyber risk AI discourse critique essay

The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Nathan Lambert Ted Underwood Nicole Hennig Dare Obasanjo

“In case you missed my hot take yesterday. www.interconnects.ai/p/the-cyber-...”

“The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken www.interconnects.ai/p/the-cyber-ri… #AI #cybersecurity”

3 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Nathan Lambert: In case you missed my hot take yesterday. www.interconnects.ai/p/the-cyber-...
Ted Underwood: In case you missed my hot take yesterday. www.interconnects.ai/p/the-cyber-...
Alex Hern: From stage to screen
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Established AI field signal Development 10d ago
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Meta Muse Wonder model launch

Muse Wonder

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Nathan Lambert Tim Kellogg Chris Paxton Sung Kim
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Looks like Meta is back at the frontier with their latest "Muse Wonder" models. Will be interesting to see independent evaluations / user testing. research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wo...”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Sung Kim: Meta's Muse Wonder Muse Wonder = Muse Wonder Flash Muse Wonder Full = Muse Wonder so confusing... research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wo...
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: All for the pun...
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Not sure how much I'd trust that.. my experience with Spark 1.3 and Spark 1.3 contributor has been... subpar vs. what the benchmarks suggest
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Established AI field signal Signal 15d ago
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Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Nathan Lambert Kevin S. Xu Oli Hawkins

“Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List How to get up to speed on open models and their implications. www.interconnects.ai/p/open-sourc...”

“@kelmgren @natolambert Here is a reading list Nathan compiled which includes many links to posts on distillation's effects on a technical level https://t.co/FBfIlFC4E5”

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Developing Models & releases Analysis 1d ago
Lambert open language models essay

Open Language Models

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Nathan Lambert SE Gyges

“Finally got to put together a complete deck on the state of open models. What they are, licenses, how competitive they are, signs people are using them, distillation's impact, and how we balance the risks and benefits of openness! natolambert.com/slides/202…”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Nathan Lambert: Will record a video lecture of these soon, and hopefully re-do them a few times a year.
Nathan Lambert: Finally got to put together a complete deck on the state of open models. What they are, licenses, how competitive they are, signs people are using them, distillation's impact, and how we balance th…
SE Gyges: Finally got to put together a complete deck on the state of open models. What they are, licenses, how competitive they are, signs people are using them, distillation's impact, and how we balance th…
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Established Culture, work & education Resource 12d ago
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Interconnects Artifacts Hub dashboard launched

Open Models Dashboard

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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Nathan Lambert Ted Underwood

“We've been monitoring a decline in HuggingFace downloads across the top open LLMs we track for interconnects. It looks like there was a slight change in counting of downloads, as we saw a ~30% download rate drop for many top models, but this is continuing o…”

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Established AI field signal Analysis 13d ago
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rapid AI progress not superintelligence

I expect rapid progress but not towards general superintelligence

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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Nathan Lambert Miguel Alonso Jr.

“I’m more bought into AI becoming far more efficient, which is a massive lever on diffusion, than I am on AI models making massive breakthroughs that result in eliminating all the known weaknesses of LLMs. www.interconnects.ai/p/i-expect-r...”

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Established AI field signal Signal 16d ago

Wheres the intelligence explosion

3 directory members surfaced this signal.

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Nathan Lambert Noah Smith nimobeeren.com

“This is an excellent report on why full RSI / an intelligence explosion is fighting diminishing returns on many fronts, and not yet showing signs of happening. Really recommend reading. I wish I wrote it. While I agree with it, it could end up being wrong! …”

“This was @ramez's take on my blog. https://t.co/Pi8frvGWww https://t.co/BqAUIbtPzq”

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Established AI business Release 20d ago
Trillium Labs AI company launch

Introducing Trillium Labs

5 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Maria Antoniak Nathan Lambert

“Today we're unveiling Trillium Labs, a new non-profit to foster the open science of frontier AI. We're building open post-training recipes and will expand into open infra to study RSI, reward-hacking, multi-agent systems, and whatever comes next. blog.trill…”

5 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Nathan Lambert: Today we're unveiling Trillium Labs, a new non-profit to foster the open science of frontier AI. We're building open post-training recipes and will expand into open infra to study RSI, reward-hacki…
Nathan Lambert: At Trillium Labs, the recipes will be the slow nutrients for the seasons and the model releases will be the blooms. Building an institution dedicated to this is needed because, much as nature’s tri…
Nathan Lambert: Trilliums are wildflowers that bloom briefly in the spring, before the forest canopies fill out. Though they are small, they lay the foundation for the cycles of growth and nourishment through the …
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Developing Culture, work & education Signal 2d ago
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Latest open artifacts (#25): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, American-made models, and new regulatory controls in the US & China

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Nathan Lambert

“The latest open models and some analysis of recent regulatory action from MOFCOM on model exports / DHS on DeepSeek. Great to see a bunch of strong US open weight models from Reflection, Meta, and Nvidia in this one! www.interconnects.ai/p/latest-ope...”

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Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
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Meta open closed frontier analysis

Meta shakes up the frontiers, open and closed

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Nathan Lambert

“Reflecting on Meta’s big week, where US open-weight models now stand, and the outlook for any meaningful competition to Anthropic & OpenAI’s models. Meta feels like they’re going from strength to strength right now, but can they close the last bit of the ga…”

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Established Models & releases Analysis 8d ago
open models vs frontier labs analysis

Can Open Models Keep Up With OpenAI and Anthropic? | Nathan Lambert

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Nathan Lambert

“Very timely appearance on the a16z podcast with Lisha Li, to try to understand how open models play into RSI dynamics, who captures value of open models, wrangling agent swarms, and why I'm building Trillium Labs: youtu.be/BKuK0M6oDTI?...”

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Debates gaining attention

What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

3 experts · 4 posts · 8d ago
Nathan Lambert Ted Underwood Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
Nathan Lambert: Lots of ecosystem players (Nvidia, Huggingface) vague posting about a lot of releases in the near future. Rumors include thinky, muse spark, and Chinese players who haven’t dropped in a while. Fabl…
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: I was just checking the other day - based on typical release cadences, we're due for another Qwen and GLM in mid October to early November. Basically, "the coming weeks", unless their dev cycles go…
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2 experts · 3 posts · 19d ago
Nathan Lambert Grace
Nathan Lambert: I think pacing the frontier is good as an idea in principle but dead on arrival as something you can actually do. What will we, decide which benchmarks we can improve on? Who is involved? If we sto…
Nathan Lambert: It distracts from how so much of AI risks is simply coming from diffusing what we have, and we should invest in preparedness, pushing the labs to be more careful, etc. Change my mind?
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