About this Concept
Open Models
AI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.
Trend this week
of conversation
5 of 5 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.
14quoted moments6episodes5podcasts discussing this topic
A closer read
- What changed
- Its share rose from 4.6% to 9.5%, with evidence across 7 podcasts.
- Where it showed up
- It appeared in episodes including “Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI” and “GPT-5.6 Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face”.
- 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
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Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
“It's an argument that open source can win and succeed in this world.”
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Report this moment“I think we should not put our head in the sand and say we're going to be king of open source small models. I think that's, frankly, it's a cop-out.”
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Report this moment“Which like for perspective at the time, you know, we knew closed models, OpenAI, Anthropic were huge. The open models we had were like, Mistral 7B, a 30B, a 70B.”
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AI Inside
GPT-5.6 Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face
“Planet X. Uh, Palantir. Uh, uh, Alex Karp, when he's arguing that companies shouldn't use hosted frontier models that aren't open because they're handing off their alpha and their, their knowledge and so on and so forth. So it seems to me that GPT-3 is playing to exactly Karp'...”
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Report this moment“I'm continually surprised to see the so-called accelerationists so excited about open weight models”
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Report this moment“It'll save companies money. It'll give them far more power because they're open weight, far more control. Uh, it'll be far safer for them.”
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Interconnects
Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next
“more players are now joining and churning out models at a really incredible rate.”
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Report this moment“people could post-train this model to very likely match Opus and GPT in many of these kind of niche domains”
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Report this moment“Which will help the open models catch up to the closed ones”
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The AI Daily Brief
The Fight Over Which AI Models You Can Use
“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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Report this moment“this guy who works at the poorly named OpenAI, more accurately ClosedAI, laments that China's open-source models could lead to, quote, full AI communism”
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Report this moment“The solution is to safely ensure that you keep a high rate of progress and drive diffusion of the technology, build out infrastructure, enable US open source software, and more.”
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Latent Space
🔬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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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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