The State of Open Models
Open models in perpetual catch-up
The open-closed gap, distillation, innovation timescales, how open models win, specialized models, what’s missing, etc.
OpenAI on Twitter / X
Our open models are here.Both of them.https://t.co/9tFxefOXcg— OpenAI (@OpenAI) August 5, 2025
5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking
Quick thoughts on another fantastic open model from a rapidly rising Chinese lab.
8 Graphs Telling Today's Story of Open Models
Community podcasts rating | Notion
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OpenAI.fm
An interactive demo for developers to try the latest text-to-speech model in the OpenAI API
Zhuokai Zhao on Twitter / X
Tons of interesting things in the Kimi K3 tech report — here are five algorithm-side techniques that I think either I've never seen before or simply deserve more attention than they're getting.1/ They open-sourced the model but kept the speculative decoding draft model, which…— Zhuokai Zhao (@zhuokaiz) July 30, 2026
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.
On Kimi K3: Its Capabilities And Related Discontents
Kimi K3 is a very good model with excellent benchmarks.
Building Effective Voice Agents — Toki Sherbakov + Anoop Kotha, OpenAI
Open Models Inference for Coding · Umans AI
Hosted Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, and DeepSeek V4 Flash. Pay per token, on infrastructure we own.
Simon Willison on Twitter / X
I think it's non-obvious to many people that the OpenAI voice mode runs on a much older, much weaker model - it feels like the AI that you can talk to should be the smartest AI but it really isn't https://t.co/bZ0Qqx9Sa9— Simon Willison (@simonw) April 10, 2026
Open models are decelerationist - Erlend’s notes
people and planet need open models to win
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.
