About this Concept
Open Models
AI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.
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of conversation
5 of 5 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.
11quoted moments5episodes4podcasts discussing this topic
A closer read
- What changed
- Its share rose from 4.6% to 8.7%, with evidence across 4 podcasts.
- Where it showed up
- It appeared in episodes including “Surviving the New Economics of a Post-Agentic World” and “Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI”.
- How to read it
- 5 cited episodes from 4 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 4 podcasts in the full analysis.
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Practical AI
Surviving the New Economics of a Post-Agentic World
“So all those things I think are contributing, and there's something else I don't know if you saw this in the news, it kind of skimmed by pretty quietly, I thought. And that was China is now recognizing the value it has in its open models, which are much cheaper to use than the...”
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Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
“Today, very obvious. 3 years ago was not an opinion held or direction held at either OpenAI or Google or Anthropic or others. And so people kind of looked down on us a little bit. They were like, you know, this is really going to work. And so we just started working the proble...”
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Report this moment“And throughout this journey, there was something that I kind of used as an analogy or things. I said kind of, well, if I go back to back in those days, kind of 2015 or 2016, we're working on this. And I picked up a sci-fi book off the shelf and I was reading the book about 203...”
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Report this moment“At what point do you no longer want to release open source models because misuse of models has, you know, real potential risks associated with it? How is the government going to respond to open source? But I think it all just came down to one thing, and I'll stop the monologue...”
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The AI Daily Brief
The Fight Over Which AI Models You Can Use
“adversaries. The Chinese Foreign Ministry touted 29 signatories to a new World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, including some of the U.S.'s favorite people in Russia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Laos. The event itself was headlined by a speech from President Xi ...”
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Report this moment“They started with a clear resource and technological disadvantage, mainly due to the US semiconductor export controls, and have managed to change the rules of engagement in such a way that the US's own tech leaders and officials are now publicly siding with China's approach ag...”
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Report this moment“why the heck would customers spend a premium to buy those frontier models when they can get the good enough models much cheaper?”
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🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model for Drug Discovery (Bo Wang & Ci Chu, Chief Discovery Officer & Chief AI Scientist)
“First of all, myself, is a deep believer of open science. That's why all the models we talk about here, data are open source. You can find all the data weights from my lab GitHub.”
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Report this moment“so that this field can move forward at a much faster pace”
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Eye on AI
"According to NASA's Definition of Life, I'm Not Alive" - Why Nobody Can Define Life | Dr. Kate Adamala
“safety concerns, but now there are open-source models that are as powerful coming out of China. Is it possible for people to use those models to understand mirror molecules or how to create them?”
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Report this moment“Understanding the molecules is not going to get you any closer to mirror life though.”
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