Measuring the impact of Qwen, DeepSeek, Llama, GPT-OSS, Nemotron, and all of the new entrants to the ecosystem.
8 Graphs Telling Today's Story of Open Models
Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier
Capacity to train strong models is proliferating.
The State of Open Models
Open models are decelerationist - Erlend’s notes
people and planet need open models to win
gpt-oss: OpenAI validates the open ecosystem (finally)
OpenAI's first open language model release since GPT 2 and what it means for the ecosystem.
OpenAI to release open-source model as AI economics force strategic shift
OpenAI plans to release its first open-weight AI model since 2019 as economic pressures mount from competitors like DeepSeek and Meta, marking a significant strategic reversal for the company behind ChatGPT.
Open models in perpetual catch-up
The open-closed gap, distillation, innovation timescales, how open models win, specialized models, what’s missing, etc.
The Next Decade of Preprints Needs Experiments, Not Opinions
Lately, I have spent a considerable amount of time writing about my concerns regarding the direction of the preprint ecosystem and the behaviour of some of the actors within it. Increasingly, I wor…
Open Models Inference for Coding · Umans AI
Hosted Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, and DeepSeek V4 Flash. Pay per token, on infrastructure we own.
Labs are struggling to keep frontier models under control
OpenAI and Anthropic may have accidentally trained models to get better at hacking.
Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation
The global implications on the AI ecosystem.
Qwen on Twitter / X
Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon!🌐With a massive 2.4T parameters, this model is continuously evolving. We believe it’s one of the most powerful model available today, compatible to leading frontier AI models , second only to Fable 5.You don't have to wait to… pic.twitter.com/JS3ID73IYS— Qwen (@Alibaba_Qwen) July 19, 2026
Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI | Ai2
Our new flagship Olmo 3 model family empowers the open source community with not only state-of-the-art open models, but the entire model flow and full traceability back to training data.
I've been interested in understanding the distribution of PDSes and general 'ecosystem resilience' for a little bit now, and inspired by @billwpierce.co's talk at #ATmosphereConf I made a dashboard I hope can add to the conversation link: atproto.barn.city (served by my macmini so bear with me)
