Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison On Monday Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal invited me to join their podcast to talk about the wild week we've had - with Kimi K3 showing open weight models can stand toe-to-toe with proprietary frontier ones, accidental cybersecurity attacks, and public letters about Open Weights and American AI Leadership signed by almost every big name in AI (with one notable exception). It was a great conversation, even though it's already o ✦ AI generated
A new prediction was added: the Pope will make a statement about open models by the end of the year.
Simon Willison: Prediction by the end of this year: the Pope says something about open models.
The Kimi K3 model demonstrates that open weight models can match the performance of proprietary frontier models.
Simon Willison: Kimi K3 showing open weight models can stand toe-to-toe with proprietary frontier ones
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Nearly every prominent figure in AI signed letters on open weights and American AI leadership, with one notable person declining to sign.
Simon Willison: public letters about Open Weights and American AI Leadership signed by almost every big name in AI (with one notable exception)
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The wide-ranging conversation touched on many subjects including cybersecurity incidents, Golden Gate Claude, the Zizians, turkey attacks, Marburg virus research, and the lead-crime hypothesis.
Simon Willison: We also talk about Golden Gate Claude, the Zizians, Alameda wild turkey attacks, Soviet Marburg virus research, the Lead-crime hypothesis, and a bunch of other worthy digressions.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 and Anthropic's cyber incident would have been discussed if recorded just a few days later, illustrating the breakneck pace of AI news.
Simon Willison: It was a great conversation, even though it's already out-of-date! DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 and Anthropic's own embarrassing cyber incident would absolutely have made the cut if we had recorded just a few days later.
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