In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.
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Open Models · 1.9% · Sep 21–27, 2026 · About the same in the latest report
Open Models
AI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.
Sep 21–27, 2026
1.9%About the sameUp 0.3 percentage points from last week
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Open Models · Sep 21–27, 2026
A closer read
What changed
Its share rose from 1.6% to 1.9%, with evidence across 7 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha” and “Zero to One in AI Safety: Halcyon's Mike McCormick on Launching 30 New Orgs & the Founder Bottleneck”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 7 podcasts in the full analysis.
Podcast moments from the week
13 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 5 podcasts
Latent Space
OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha
“They had run with Stable Diffusion. And with Mistral, uh I don't know if you guys remember, but the first checkpoint they released was like torrents. It was like torrent weights.”
“Have you heard any pitches around, like, well, I guess for one thing, how about open weights models? This has obviously been a vexing question. I'm a huge— every chance I get to cite Graham from AE Studio and Anthropic, uh I point to them.”
“maybe you could be convinced to use this technique and then distribute the model with like -2 experts or whatever that take out those kind of most dangerous capabilities.”
“I do think it's important for NVIDIA models. If you look at the leaderboards of video models, I would say right now the majority of models at the uh top 10, top 20 are Chinese models. There is uh only a handful of companies that are made it to the leaderboard from the US or th...”
“Sure. It was just random notes we had. NVIDIA uh launched COSMO. I guess it's interesting. So uh you're a founding member, AI labs to build open source world models in physical AI. Um Anything much to talk on here? Is open research?”
“There's still so much that you can scale those models further. So much more advancements and things that we can figure out how to improve those models further.”
“Lift the shirt and show your tattoo. Uh, all right. The point is there is a new Grok. Great. Like, we welcome all comers. There's been some hot new open source AI models.”
“For the video users, the thumbnail's on the screen. For everybody else, I'll just say that what's beneath the blurry pixels was really incredible considering it's a local model that was uh jailbroken to be fully uncensored. Y'all can make whatever you want now. And maybe we'll...”
“open source is catching up. But if you actually look at, okay, well, what does OpenAI and Anthropic have in-house right now? The gap widens considerably.”
