# Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison > Source: > Published: 2026-07-31 21:33:13+00:00 [Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison](https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-open-weight-revolution-with-simon-willison) It was a great conversation, even though it's already out-of-date! [DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731](https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-flash) and [Anthropic's own embarrassing cyber incident](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/30/three-real-world-incidents/) would absolutely have made the cut if we had recorded just a few days later. We also talk about [Golden Gate Claude](https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude), the [Zizians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizians), [Alameda wild turkey attacks](https://abc7news.com/post/83-year-old-alameda-woman-attacked-wild-turkeys-city-warns-residents-take-precautions-during-mating-season/19190785/), [Soviet Marburg virus research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_biological_weapons_program), the [Lead-crime hypothesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis), and a bunch of other worthy digressions. Finally, we revisited some of [our predictions from January](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/llm-predictions-for-2026/), and we [added a new Pope prediction](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/#another-2026-prediction-down): Prediction by the end of this year: the Pope says something about open models. Tags: [predictions](https://simonwillison.net/tags/predictions), [ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), [generative-ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai), [local-llms](https://simonwillison.net/tags/local-llms), [llms](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms), [oxide](https://simonwillison.net/tags/oxide), [bryan-cantrill](https://simonwillison.net/tags/bryan-cantrill), [ai-in-china](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-in-china), [ai-security-research](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-security-research)