The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison

Simon Willison joined Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal on the Oxide and Friends podcast to discuss recent AI developments, including a high-profile security incident that was AI-induced and AI-diagnosed, and the rise of frontier-class open-weights models. The conversation explored the pros and cons of open weights and their implications for security.

Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a wild couple of weeks in AI. First, we have a high-profile, AI-induced, AI-diagnosed security incident. Next we have the rise of frontier-class open-weights models. Who's for or against open weights? Do they make for a more or less secure future? Exciting times In addition to Bryan Cantrill https://bsky.app/profile/bcantrill.bsky.social and Adam Leventhal https://bsky.app/profile/ahl.bsky.social , our special guest was Simon Willison https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net . Previously, on Oxide and Friends: Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c 318925f4185aa71c4524d0d6127f31058c9e21f29f017d48a0fca6f564969cd0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics . We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers