Interconnects leaders on AI, quotes with sources
10 quotes from Nathan Lambert
- Since about April 2025, Chinese AI companies have been the clear leader in open-weight models.
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- I have my doubts that the labs can afford to spend a constant portion of this compute on internal R&D as the total volume goes up, especially with plans to IPO, as they face increased scrutiny on basic economics.
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- It is important to not confuse massive steps in inference-time scaling, a dynamic which should be fairly predictable, with being the outputs of RSI, which is highly uncertain.
- The step from this anxiety, and incidents like OpenAI-HuggingFace, to extinction risks feels very religious.
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- For knowledge work, which is roughly half of the U.S. economy, AI is as fundamental as electricity (or quickly will be so, with rapid improvements to agents in the next 18 months).
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- Open models lack the central economic champion to represent the potential downside of action against them.
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