About this Concept
Open Models
AI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.
Trend this week
of conversation
8 of 8 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.
12quoted moments5episodes5podcasts discussing this topic
A closer read
- What changed
- Its share fell from 5.4% to 4.8%, with evidence across 8 podcasts.
- Where it showed up
- It appeared in episodes including “Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban...” and “The AI Race Just Moved the Goal Posts”.
- How to read it
- 5 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 8 podcasts in the full analysis.
Podcast moments from the week
Moments are grouped by episode so repeated excerpts from one conversation do not look like separate sources.
The Cognitive Revolution
Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses
“Sonnet 4.6 is a really good level, a really good model for like most use cases. And it's literally 100x cheaper”
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Report this moment“a model could pass a bunch of tests and you would feel good about it. And then if you'd start to test it live with users, you'd get the feedback that like, hey, like it got dumb”
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Report this moment“Can we unpack the threat model there though? Because I'm a little bit like, okay, these are, I don't know where you're running your inference, but like most American companies that are running Chinese models are not like calling the DeepSeek API, right? They're using some Amer...”
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AI Inside
The AI Race Just Moved the Goal Posts
“the great news here is that he is still supporting Open”
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Report this moment“this is really important because it's more open than closed”
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Report this moment“it's a moment for open weights and a moment for people being able to have AI in their own control”
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AI For Humans
Zuck Wants Superintelligence. Do People Even Want AI?
“The cynical viewpoint is that, well, we're sticking with open source because it turns out we couldn't beat the closed-source foundational stuff.”
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Last Week in AI
#254 - Rogue AI hacking, bio-weapons, Dean & Hassabis out
“I think there's a knockdown argument against the idea that more good open source models are general, like generally leads to stability”
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Report this moment“I'm super skeptical of the argument that open source models are a long-term pillar of cyber defense”
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Report this moment“open source for cyber defense equals cyber defense capabilities that are real and deployed. That is not the case.”
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Eye on AI
In 5 Years, 90% of What You Use AI For Will Run on Your Smartphone | Paolo Ardoino, Tether
“Our team was able to produce a 4 billion parameters model. that was exceeding the performance and the accuracy of the 27 billion parameter model of Magenta.”
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Report this moment“can work everywhere. And yeah, we, and again, will be fully open source.”
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