Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison It was a great conversation, even though it's already out-of-date! DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 and Anthropic's own embarrassing cyber incident would absolutely have made the cut if we had recorded just a few days later.
We also talk about Golden Gate Claude, the Zizians, Alameda wild turkey attacks, Soviet Marburg virus research, the Lead-crime hypothesis, and a bunch of other worthy digressions.
Finally, we revisited some of our predictions from January, and we added a new Pope prediction:
Prediction by the end of this year: the Pope says something about open models.
Tags: predictions, ai, generative-ai, local-llms, llms, oxide, bryan-cantrill, ai-in-china, ai-security-research
source & further reading
simonwillison.net — original article
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