About this Concept
Open Models
AI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.
Trend this week
of conversation
7 of 7 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.
9quoted moments6episodes5podcasts discussing this topic
A closer read
- What changed
- Its share fell from 6.7% to 5.4%, with evidence across 9 podcasts.
- Where it showed up
- It appeared in episodes including “Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $100...” and “Seedance 2.5 & The New Age of AI Video (w/ Theoretically Media)”.
- How to read it
- 6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 9 podcasts in the full analysis.
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The Cognitive Revolution
Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
“there's not too many open weights models that you can hack on that have the intensity of RL that is going on at the frontier labs”
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Report this moment“To be clear, my feelings on open source are like very nuanced. Like the reality is that we do have cyber weapons, like in the world now, like, like we have models that are so powerful that they are weapons and unwieldy ones at that, it turns out.”
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Report this moment“I think I'm still in, we're still in the era where I think open source is like purely net positive.”
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AI For Humans
Seedance 2.5 & The New Age of AI Video (w/ Theoretically Media)
“it might be that we get a model, a video model from them that's pretty good”
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Practical AI
Models, Harnesses, and Multi-Agent Systems
“Yep. And so, and that's, and it's interesting that we're in a moment where if you're wanting to run a fairly sophisticated model on your own, you know, on your own server, you're probably most likely going to a Chinese model these days. They're the best. They're the best right...”
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The Cognitive Revolution
Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ...
“even if they work, you need everybody who is releasing one of these models to use the technique properly, voluntarily, at this point.”
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AI Inside
What Happens When AI Outsmarts Mathematicians
“From NVIDIA. Yeah, I just said that. So I'm announcing his news here first. Sorry, Leo. Um, yeah, but because he believes strongly in, in local models, local Because of control, because of a lack of—”
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Report this moment“I think you can have, have the saddle go to the most powerful models that are too big for you to run locally, only for the tasks that they can't do.”
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The AI Native Dev
Datadog Deleted All Its AI Context. It Worked.
“To clarify for those who don't know, that Pi is the kind of very highly customizable custom harness. It's open source, but then you can customize, on top of which OpenCLAW is built.”
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