Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison

In a recent episode of the Oxide and Friends podcast, Simon Willison discussed the open weight revolution, touching on topics such as DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, Anthropic's cyber incident, and Golden Gate Claude. Willison also revisited predictions from January and added a new one: by the end of 2026, the Pope will say something about open models.

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It was a great conversation, even though it's already out-of-date DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-flash and Anthropic's own embarrassing cyber incident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