State of the blog, mid-2026
About 3 years since I started writing weekly.
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Welcome to the AGI era of AI governance
It's a one-way door and we weren't ready for it.
Claude Fable 5 and new AI safety fables
One step further into the power politics of frontier AI systems.
Farewell Ai2
This was my last week at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), where I got the great privilege to work on the Olmo models, to grow,…
Open and closed models are on different exponentials
Where marginally higher intelligence drives value, and where it doesn't.
Some ideas for what comes next, May 2026
Gemini Flash 3.5, Mythos, open-closed balance, America's open-source surge, emerging power struggles and more.
Latest open artifacts (#21): Open model bonanza! Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, MiMo 2.5, GLM-5.1 & others. On CAISI's V4 assessment.
An eventful month with one flagship release after another
How open model ecosystems compound
Further reflections on China's high-participation, open-first AI ecosystem.
Notes from inside China's AI labs
Lessons from my trip to talk to most of the leading AI labs in China.
The distillation panic
‘Distillation attacks’ is a horrible term for what is happening right now.