Interconnects

Nathan Lambert

Audio essays about the latest developments in AI and interviews with leading scientists in the field. Breaking the hype, understanding what's under the hood, and telling stories.

www.interconnects.ai

151 - Dean Ball on open models and government control

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Interconnects

Episodios

Dean Ball on open models and government control

Olmo Hybrid and future LLM architectures

How much does distillation really matter for Chinese LLMs?

Opus 4.6, Codex 5.3, and the post-benchmark era

Why Nvidia builds open models with Bryan Catanzaro

Thoughts on the job market in the age of LLMs

Arcee AI goes all-in on open models built in the U.S.

Get Good at Agents

Use multiple models

Claude Code Hits Different

Open models: Hot or Not with Nathan Lambert & Florian Brand

New Talk: Building Olmo 3 Think

Olmo 3: America’s truly open reasoning models

Why AI writing is mid

Interview: Ant Group's open model ambitions

5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking

Burning out

How to scale RL

The State of Open Models

Thoughts on The Curve

ChatGPT: The Agentic App

Thinking, Searching, and Acting

Coding as the epicenter of AI progress and the path to general agents

On China's open source AI trajectory

Ranking the Chinese Open Model Builders

Contra Dwarkesh on Continual Learning

GPT-5 and the arc of progress

gpt-oss: OpenAI validates the open ecosystem (finally)

Towards American Truly Open Models: The ATOM Project

Interviewing Ross Taylor on the state of AI: Chinese open models, scaling reasoning, useful tools, and what comes next

The White House's plan for open models & AI research in the U.S.

Kimi K2 and when "DeepSeek Moments" become normal

The American DeepSeek Project

Some ideas for what comes next

Crafting a good (reasoning) model

The rise of reasoning machines

What comes next with reinforcement learning

How I Write

A taxonomy for next-generation reasoning models

Claude 4 and Anthropic's bet on code

People use AI more than you think

My path into AI

What people get wrong about the leading Chinese open models: Adoption and censorship

State of play of AI progress (and related brakes on an intelligence explosion)

Transparency and (shifting) priority stacks

OpenAI's o3: Over-optimization is back and weirder than ever

OpenAI's GPT-4.1 and separating the API from ChatGPT

Llama 4: Did Meta just push the panic button?

RL backlog: OpenAI's many RLs, clarifying distillation, and latent reasoning

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Google's second chance with AI