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Providing transparency on what is happening with open models is the best way for Interconnects to figure out what is working and to enable the open ecosystem to use open models productively in cost-competitive ways.

Interconnects frames the transparency mission: as the world figures out productive open-model use (especially cost-competitively vs frontier models), sharing data is the best way to learn what works; they invite feedback and collaboration. ✦ AI generated

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It's core to our mission at Interconnects to enable the open ecosystem. Right now, as the world figures out how to use open models productively — especially in cost-competitive ways to frontier models — providing more transparency on what is happening is the best way for us to figure out what is working. We'd love to hear how we can make this better, please get in touch. We're also interested in how others could use our curated data for other products or research in the open ecosystem.

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Open datasets like The Stack v3 materially raise the floor for every lab that wants to build competitive code models without relying on closed ecosystems, and open weights are strategically important against calls to restrict distillation.AINews / Latent.Space · Latent Space · conf 70%

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95% of model building reduces to improving data or improving compute efficiency — it's not magic, and many more people could be capable researchers.Eiso Kant · Latent Space · conf 60%

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explains mechanism → We are expanding our open-models coverage into standalone projects that let you go deeper on the state of the open model ecosystem, introducing two free data sources: the Artifacts Hub and our Adoption Dashboard.Interconnects (article author) · Interconnects explains mechanism → Interconnects is expanding its primary efforts on Interconnects — release recaps for popular models and the monthly Artifacts Log round-up — by building on the tools and internal data collected for projects like The ATOM Project, capturing an ecosystem view of open models and understanding adoption of giant MoE models.Interconnects (article author) · Interconnects explains mechanism → The Artifacts Hub covers 792 models released in the last two years and lets users go deeper on analysis in collaboration with Project VAIL.Interconnects (article author) · Interconnects