About this Concept
Open Models
AI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.
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12 of 12 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.
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A closer read
- What changed
- Its share rose from 1.3% to 2.6%, with evidence across 6 podcasts.
- Where it showed up
- It appeared in episodes including “GPT-6 Astra Does Everything. Here's What It's Actually Good At.” and “#256 - Fable 5.1, Astra Tease, Gemini 3.8 Flash”.
- How to read it
- 2 cited episodes from 2 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 6 podcasts in the full analysis.
Podcast moments from the week
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GPT-6 Astra Does Everything. Here's What It's Actually Good At.
“Well, speaking of, um, this is a bit of a ah distraction, but um Playtime AI over on Hugging Face, I don't I'm not quite sure how the account is still active right now, uh but I went and scraped all of their models. They've got a bunch of LoRAs for— uh these are uh adapters, i...”
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#256 - Fable 5.1, Astra Tease, Gemini 3.8 Flash
“They were able to distill the big models into smaller models. But they did also open source these um and gave us a lot of technical details.”
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Report this moment“Which we also talked about, I think even a couple of times. These are, you know, these are pretty like in the weeds things and they're popping up all, all over the place now in the Chinese ecosystem. This, I think, is like uh an interesting and for me, I'll say embarrassingly ...”
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Report this moment“Still, I think it's an interesting artifact of this open sourcing that you do see such convergence across now. Like, I mean, it's like 2 or 3 entities that are very significant in China.”
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