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New AI field signal Signal 3h ago

Open Models Dashboard

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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“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”

Established Culture, work & education Analysis 4d ago
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NYT essay AI won't steal jobs

Opinion | Why A.I. Won’t Steal All Our Jobs - The New York Times

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“Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...”

“usually a fan of Zeynep's accounts, but AI will get better and better at customer service until it's at least as good as humans, … a big part of that will be systems engineering, including architectures that enable one AI interaction to share with the next …”

10 experts discussed this · 51 posts
Eugene Vinitsky: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
Eugene Vinitsky: The only prompting was to tell the model that it was possible to check that links were correct
Ted Underwood: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
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Established Compute & infrastructure Development 3d ago
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Alphabet develops efficient AI chip

Alphabet stock pops on report it's developing a more efficient AI chip

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“Google is developing a more gemini-specific chip for inference in the past they’ve argued that TPUs being generic matmul machines is a competitive advantage, but 6x-10x is really hard to look away from www.cnbc.com/2026/07/20/a...”

Established Policy & governance Research 4d ago
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D-OPSD diffusion self-distillation paper

D-OPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Continuously Tuning Step-Distilled Diffusion Models

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“D-OPSD transforms training for step-distilled diffusion models, enabling on-policy self-distillation to learn new concepts without sacrificing efficient few-step inference. This enhances image quality and response speed for AI-generated content. https://arx…”

“absolutely goated paper for anyone working with distilled diffusion models lately: arxiv.org/abs/2605.05204”

Established Models & releases Signal 6d ago

Cheaper ai commodity openai anthropic 0111da73

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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“HUGE news from China last night, and I have a comprehensive analysis of its implications for the AI bubble this morning. Xi Jinping has more or less declared war on OpenAI and Anthropic and any U.S. tech firm that insists on closed, proprietary AI models. 🎁…”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Christopher Mims: HUGE news from China last night, and I have a comprehensive analysis of its implications for the AI bubble this morning. Xi Jinping has more or less declared war on OpenAI and Anthropic and any U.S…
Christopher Mims: I think we're going to get good at efficiently running open weights models anywhere we care to, it will reduce the environmental impact of this stuff as with "open as in open source", in software o…
Ted Underwood: HUGE news from China last night, and I have a comprehensive analysis of its implications for the AI bubble this morning. Xi Jinping has more or less declared war on OpenAI and Anthropic and any U.S…
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Established Agents & robotics Research 4d ago
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LLM agents debate cultural alignment paper

Multiple LLM Agents Debate for Equitable Cultural Alignment

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“It's a thing! Multi-Agent Debate. aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...”

2 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Ted Underwood: 100% valid concerns about the effect of moving from an anonymous-review system to a non-anonymized endorsement or recommendation system. I'm not disagreeing when I point out that ... this is not hy…
Ted Underwood: Yep. Senior scholars and, emphatically, corporations. Anthropic doesn't need anyone to peer-review their work. It will be read.
Eli Sennesh: 100% valid concerns about the effect of moving from an anonymous-review system to a non-anonymized endorsement or recommendation system. I'm not disagreeing when I point out that ... this is not hy…
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What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

4 experts · 45 posts · 1d ago
Pwnallthethings: This is going to be a big deal, but easy to get the wrong end of the stick on it. So I think it's worth breaking down what actually happened, why, and what it actually means, based on the public in…
Pwnallthethings: Upfront tl;dr: a model at OAI hacked out of a constrained environment inside OAI and hacked a *different* company autonomously, without authorization from any human in order to creatively solve a t…
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3 experts · 16 posts · 5d ago
Laura K. Nelson: The free version of ChatGPT automatically searches the web. The prompt "What are the most relevant sources for the claim that LLMs hallucinate?" returns the following. All those link buttons in the…
Laura K. Nelson: In my own N=1 experience, the links I get from (free) ChatGPT are almost always more relevant and helpful than what I get from Google(+Scholar). It just works better for me as a way to find relevan…
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