Notes from inside China's AI labs
Lessons from my trip to talk to most of the leading AI labs in China.
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The distillation panic
‘Distillation attacks’ is a horrible term for what is happening right now.
Reading today's open-closed performance gap
The complex factors that determine the single evaluation number so many focus on. Plus, how this changes in the future.
My bets on open models, mid-2026
What I expect to come next and why, focused on the open-closed gap.
What I’ve been building: ATOM Report, post-training course, finishing my book, and ongoing research
What I've been up to!
The inevitable need for an open model consortium
And yes, I hate consortia too.
Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering
Another dance around fears of open-source.
Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed
Hint: it's not benchmark scores.
Latest open artifacts (#20): New orgs! New types of models! With Nemotron Super, Sarvam, Cohere Transcribe, & others
New orgs! New types of models! With Nemotron Super, Sarvam, Cohere Transcribe, & others