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Since about April 2025, Chinese AI companies have been the clear leader in open-weight models.Nathan LambertSep 21, 2026· Post
The simple metric showing this is Hugging Face Downloads, where China took the lead in July of 2025 primarily through the success of Alibaba’s Qwen models.Nathan LambertSep 21, 2026· Post
Basically anything that can be learned through RL can be distilled very easily, because it’s a small number of bits.John SchulmanSep 11, 2026· Interview
Cost-saving efforts reveal that moving simpler workloads to open AI models is the easiest way to save ~50% on AI bills.Gergely OroszSep 3, 2026· Post
The long and short of it is this: marginal costs are back in a big way, both in terms of short-term implications of state-of-the-art free models, and in terms of the long-term structure of the industry.Ben ThompsonJul 20, 2026· Post
Open models lack the central economic champion to represent the potential downside of action against them.Nathan LambertJul 12, 2026· Post
The most serious test to date of open source AI’s viability is happening right now.Nathan LambertJul 12, 2026· Post
The primary driver motivating regulation today is the inevitable truth that an open-weights model will soon reach the capabilities of Claude’s Mythos model.Nathan LambertJul 12, 2026· Post
I think the reason it is relatively easy for open source and previous laggards to catch up to within months of the frontier is that data is the real driver of progress.Dwarkesh PatelJun 19, 2026· Essay
By shaping the capabilities of these systems from the ground up, we can help establish a global foundation for AI that empowers developers to build the next generation of applications.Arthur MenschMar 16, 2026· Statement
Open frontier models are how AI becomes a true platform...Arthur MenschMar 16, 2026· Statement
Structurally, I think there will always be an open source model that will be fairly capable in the world that you could then use, as long as you have something that you can use that with, which is data and a scaffolding.Satya NadellaNov 12, 2025· Interview
Indeed, the best open-source and open-weight models may become industry standard setters.Michael KratsiosAugust 2025· Keynote
You can basically take a model that's much bigger, and capture probably 90 or 95% of its intelligence, and run it in something that's 10% of the size.Mark ZuckerbergApr 29, 2025· Interview
You need to worry about waking up one day and if you're using a model that has some tie to another government, can it embed vulnerabilities in code that their intelligence organizations could exploit later?Mark ZuckerbergApr 29, 2025· Interview
It was either going to be a startup or someone outside the current center of leadership and innovation in AI, which is mostly clustered around trillion-dollar companies in the US.Steven SinofskyJan 27, 2025· Essay
We continue to see great momentum in AI as our models are trusted, fit-for-purpose, and lower cost, with performance leadership.Arvind KrishnaOct 23, 2024· Earnings
I believe the Llama 3.1 release will be an inflection point in the industry where most developers begin to primarily use open source, and I expect that approach to only grow from here.Mark ZuckerbergJul 23, 2024· Essay
Our adversaries are great at espionage, stealing models that fit on a thumb drive is relatively easy, and most tech companies are far from operating in a way that would make this more difficult.Mark ZuckerbergJul 23, 2024· Essay
There is an ongoing debate about the safety of open source AI models, and my view is that open source AI will be safer than the alternatives.Mark ZuckerbergJul 23, 2024· Essay
Third, a key difference between Meta and closed model providers is that selling access to AI models isn’t our business model.Mark ZuckerbergJul 23, 2024· Essay
Today, Linux is the industry standard foundation for both cloud computing and the operating systems that run most mobile devices – and we all benefit from superior products because of it. I believe that AI will develop in a similar way.Mark ZuckerbergJul 23, 2024· Essay
On the flip side, one of the reasons why I'm philosophically so pro open source is that I do think that a concentration of AI in the future has the potential to be as dangerous as it being widespread.Mark ZuckerbergApr 18, 2024· Interview
So the direction of inevitable direction of history is that the vast majority of AI systems will be built on top of open source platforms.Yann LeCunMar 7, 2024· Interview

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