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People are always asking for recommendations for other great content to read, but few people find that I maintain a full list of recommendations with my blog Interconnects (link to page below). Here's the list in no structured order: 1. Helen Toner (Helen Toner), Rising Tide:

Interviewing Ross Taylor on the state of AI: Chinese open models, scaling reasoning, useful tools, and what comes next Interconnects Interview #14. Ross's second time on the show. Transcript & Post: interconnects.ai/p/interviewing… YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=Kn0xgi…

Back in the interview chair with a general recap of the AI research ecosystem with one of my favorite people to talk to. Ross Taylor (Ross Taylor, former Llama reasoning lead) is back for round 2. In this episode we cover some of everything: 00:00:00 Recent AI news (Chinese

With Qwen & peers cooking so fast, Interconnects is becoming largely a Chinese AI newsletter.

gpt-oss: OpenAI validates the open ecosystem (finally) OpenAI's first open language model release since GPT 2 and what it means for the ecosystem. interconnects.ai/p/gpt-oss-open…

Tune in tomorrow 🎙️5️⃣

A day and a half out from the launch of ATOM, one thing is very clear about open models compared to years past: it's no longer a minority position. Below is a list of notable signatories (w over 200 in total). People from every corner of the AI community have signed on. People

GPT 5 Launch Party w/ Will Brown & Swyx x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

The best portion of the GPT 5 livestream w swyx and will brown was the end, where we debated the balance between 1. People are going to get a lot of value out of this model today, and 2. It still feels like a bear case on "exponential takeoff" and other AGI stories Enjoy

GPT-5 and bending the arc of progress Overpromising will always lead to some sort of underdelivering, but what we're getting is still phenomenal. interconnects.ai/p/gpt-5-and-be…

What I'm reading (#2): More on Kimi K2, how to build a bad research center, Pretraining with RL, and sporks of AGI A quiet summer is all you need. interconnects.ai/p/what-im-read…

Latest open artifacts (#13): The abundance era of open models Mostly thanks to Qwen, but now we're spoiled for choice and winds are shifting. interconnects.ai/p/latest-open-…

This month's leading open model contributors in Artifacts Log. Thanks for continuing to release your work. Qwen (Qwen) x5 Zhipu AI (ZhipuAI by BigModel) x2 NVIDIA (NVIDIA) x2 OpenAI (OpenAI) InclusionAI (InclusionAI) x2 Infinigence (infinigence) Tesslate (@TesslateAI)

Contra Dwarkesh on Continual Learning Don't try to make your airplane too much like a bird. interconnects.ai/p/contra-dwark…

China's Top 19 Open Model Labs We ranked all the organizations in China releasing open models, from the top of DeepSeek to small, newer academic labs making waves with tech reports and niche models. interconnects.ai/p/chinas-top-1…