My new advising agreements with Arcee AI and Mercor support my open-science mission rather than compromising my editorial independence, since I'd quit if they ever constrained what I write.

Lambert discloses new advising agreements with Arcee AI and Mercor, framing them as a way to learn how frontier labs approach post-training rather than a conflict that undermines his independence. ✦ AI generated

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

The two companies I’m advising, whose leadership I’ve become friends with, are Arcee AI and Mercor. Arcee should be fairly obvious as the no-nonsense player building open-weight models. Mercor will make more sense over time, but they’re a close ally to a lot of my goals in transparent evaluations, open post-training, and neutrality with respect to the leading labs.

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