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The cutting edge of AI, from inside the frontier AI labs, minus the hype. The border between high-level and technical thinking. Read by leading engineers, researchers, and investors on Wednesday mornings.

Olmo Hybrid and future LLM architectures

Latest open artifacts (#19): Qwen 3.5, GLM 5, MiniMax 2.5 — Chinese labs' latest push of the frontier

How much does distillation really matter for Chinese LLMs?

Open models in perpetual catch-up

Opus 4.6 vs. Codex 5.3

Why Nvidia builds open models with Bryan Catanzaro

Latest open artifacts (#18): Arcee's 400B MoE, LiquidAI's underrated 1B model, new Kimi, and anticipation of a busy month

Thoughts on the hiring market in the age of LLMs

Arcee AI goes all-in on open models built in the U.S.

Get Good at Agents

Use multiple models

Claude Code Hits Different

8 plots that explain the state of open models

Latest open artifacts (#17): NVIDIA, Arcee, Minimax, DeepSeek, Z.ai and others close an eventful year on a high note

Open models: Hot or Not with Nathan Lambert & Florian Brand

2025 Interconnects year in review

2025 Open Models Year in Review

New Talk: Building Olmo 3 Think

Latest open artifacts (#16): Who's building models in the U.S., China's model release playbook, and a resurgence of truly open models

Olmo 3: America’s truly open reasoning models