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Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison
Open weight models reaching competitive parity with proprietary ones shifts the build-vs-buy calculus for teams integrating AI, reducing lock-in to closed APIs. The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident signals that AI-on-AI security interactions are becoming a real operational concern, not a theoretical one.
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Kimi K3 demonstrated that open weight models can stand toe-to-toe with proprietary frontier models in capability.
OpenAI accidentally conducted a cyberattack against Hugging Face, an incident Willison described as science fiction that actually happened.
A public letter on Open Weights and American AI Leadership was signed by nearly every major AI figure, with one notable exception.
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