About this Concept
Open Models
AI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.
Trend this week
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9 of 9 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.
5quoted moments3episodes3podcasts discussing this topic
A closer read
- What changed
- Its share fell from 4.8% to 0.8%, with evidence across 6 podcasts.
- Where it showed up
- It appeared in episodes including “AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)” and “AI Got Weird. So We're Changing The Show.”.
- How to read it
- 3 cited episodes from 3 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 6 podcasts in the full analysis.
Podcast moments from the week
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The Cognitive Revolution
AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)
“Because if you look at our evals, to give you an example, we tested most models, but Gemma 4 was one of the winners in terms of quality, speed. Quite to our surprise, because if you look at most of the benchmarks, it's not one of the models, but I have a suspicion Google has s...”
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Report this moment“The market is like, oh, you know, the OpenWeights labs are gonna, you know, OpenWeights, uh, models are gonna dominate, but then it takes 9 months to deploy.”
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AI For Humans
AI Got Weird. So We're Changing The Show.
“Quen, by the way, is really freaking good, and so is GLM. These are local models, or in the cloud, you can run them in the cloud or locally, that are actually great AI models that can do stuff like that.”
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Report this moment“This is using Minimax H3, an incredibly powerful open-source model that you can run locally. You can run it on— if you have a high-end graphics card, you can run it. You can rent for pennies a graphics card in the cloud to experiment. You don't have to pay out the nose for a l...”
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AI Inside
OpenAI Pumps the Brakes After Its AI Escaped
“We don't know the stories behind all of that, uh, but I think it's trouble time for OpenAI. Um, and, you know, we've also discussed the last 2 weeks the, the OpenWeight models as competitors, which I think is critically important. All the more important now because of the secu...”
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