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New Models & releases Analysis 10h ago
Lambert open language models essay

Open Language Models

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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…”

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Developing Culture, work & education Signal 1d 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 4d 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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3 experts · 4 posts · 6d 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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