Nathan Lambert — Interconnects
About #
ML researcher at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) who leads post-training work and has authored prominent open-model research including OLMo, Tulu 2/3, RewardBench, Zephyr-Beta, and the Open LLM Leaderboard, and wrote the first RLHF textbook. Through Interconnects he provides technical, insider-level analysis of frontier AI lab economics, training methods, and reasoning models, positioned against industry hype. A leading voice on the open-vs-closed model ecosystem, including geopolitical dynamics.
How this journal works #
Checked every 4 days: each new post or episode in Nathan Lambert’s own feeds (newsletter, podcast) becomes one entry, dated by publication and summarised in a few bullets.
Entries
- Latest open artifacts (#25): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, American-made models, and new regulatory controls in the US & China
- Meta shakes up the frontiers, open and closed
- I expect rapid progress but not towards general superintelligence
- The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken
- Debating RSI, the US-China Gap, and Jaggedness with JS Denain of Epoch AI
- The current balance of power in open models
- Why I still haven’t bought into true RSI
- Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List
- One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire
- When will average people feel AI’s impact?
- Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses
- 5 useful things you'll learn in my new post-training textbook (shipping now!)
- GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier
- I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?
- Lessons from the hacks
- Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens
- Introducing our Artifacts Hub and Adoption Dashboard
- Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier
- Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next
- Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation
- 6 months to live for open models
- Latest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystem
- GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents