Podcast Episodes

Coding as the epicenter of AI progress and the path to general agents

Coding, due to its breadth of use-cases, is arguably the last tractable, general domain of continued progress for frontier models that most people can interface with. This is a bold claim, so let’s c…

Published on 9 hours ago

On China's open source AI trajectory

Hello everyone! I’m coming back online after two weeks of vacation. Thankfully it coincided with some of the slowest weeks of the year in the AI space. I’m excited to get back to writing and (soon) s…

Published on 1 week, 2 days ago

Ranking the Chinese Open Model Builders

The Chinese AI ecosystem has taken the AI world by storm this summer with an unrelenting pace of stellar open model releases. The flagship releases that got the most Western media coverage are the li…

Published on 1 month ago

Contra Dwarkesh on Continual Learning

Dwarkesh Patel’s now well-read post on why he is extending his AI timelines focuses on the idea of continual learning. If you ask me, what we have already is AGI, so the core question is: Is continua…

Published on 1 month ago

GPT-5 and the arc of progress

If you want a video version of this, check out the last 20 minutes of the livestream reaction (edit, fixed link) I did with Will Brown of Prime Intellect and Swyx of Smol AI & Latent Space.

GPT-5 was …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

gpt-oss: OpenAI validates the open ecosystem (finally)

OpenAI released two open-weight, text-only reasoning models today, both mixture of experts (MoE) sized to run efficiently on a range of hardware from consumer GPUs to the cloud. These models have the…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Towards American Truly Open Models: The ATOM Project

I’m very excited to share a substantial project on invigorating investment in open language models and AI research in the U.S. The ATOM (American Truly Open Models) Project is the mature evolution of…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Interviewing Ross Taylor on the state of AI: Chinese open models, scaling reasoning, useful tools, and what comes next

I’m excited to welcome Ross Taylor back on the podcast (and sorry for the lack of episodes in general – I have a lot going on!). The first time Ross came on we focused on reasoning – before inference…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The White House's plan for open models & AI research in the U.S.

Today, the White House released its AI Action Plan, the document we’ve been waiting for to understand how the new administration plans to achieve “global dominance in artificial intelligence (AI).” T…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kimi K2 and when "DeepSeek Moments" become normal

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/kimi-k2-and-when-deepseek-moments

The DeepSeek R1 release earlier this year was more of a prequel than a one-off fluke in the trajectory of AI. Last week, a Chinese star…

Published on 2 months ago