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Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison

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  • Guest appearance on Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal’s Oxide and Friends podcast, covering open-weight models (Kimi K3) competing with proprietary frontier models, the OpenAI/Hugging Face and Anthropic cybersecurity incidents, and the “Open Weights and American AI Leadership” letter (notably unsigned by Anthropic).
  • Also revisited the group’s January 2026 predictions and added a new one for year’s end: “the Pope says something about open models.”
  • Willison notes the episode was outdated within days — DeepSeek V4 Flash and Anthropic’s cybersecurity disclosure both landed shortly after recording — a comment on how fast the current AI news cycle is moving.