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I considered turning Interconnects into a full-time, top-priority operation like SemiAnalysis or Stratechery, but rejected that path because building an open-science ecosystem requires more than commentary and analysis.

Lambert reveals he weighed going full-time on Interconnects in the style of SemiAnalysis or Stratechery, but decided it wouldn't achieve his real goal of building an open-science movement in AI. ✦ AI generated

Nathan Lambert · Interconnects · 2026-06-17 · original ↗

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Over the past few months, I considered taking Interconnects in more of a direction like SemiAnalysis or Stratechery, where it is my full-time gig and number one priority, but it didn’t seem like the right fit for what I am trying to achieve. I’m trying to build an open ecosystem and a movement for true open-science at the frontier of AI.

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