Aspiring for Intelligence
Vivek Ramaswami, Sabrina Albert, Caleb BushnerThe latest themes, trends, and news in the world of intelligent applications
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Open Weights, Many Winners
This will be remembered as the summer of open models.
Every week we are seeing new open weights models nearing and in some cases surpassing frontier level performance: Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, DeepSeek V4 Pro and Qwen3-Coder are all topping leade...
Own the Data Loop
A few weeks ago we argued that the era of frontier-model dominance is ending — the value in AI is migrating from the raw model to the harness around it, catalyzed by the rapid progress in open-source and open weights models. But we want to...
Frontier No More?
For the past two years, the outcome of the AI race had felt close to settled. A few labs owned the best models, the gap to everyone else looked like it was only widening, and the rest of the industry organized around a single anxious questi...
Your Vendor Is Your Competitor
Any listener of the All In podcast knows Chamath is full of hot takes, for better or for worse.
A few weeks ago he did make a very salient point: consulting businesses running Anthropic and OpenAI are “letting the fox into the henhouse”....
Remembering S. "Soma" Somasegar
This isn’t the post we planned to write this week.
We are heartbroken that our dear friend and colleague Soma Somasegar passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday. For those who didn't know Soma, he was a tech titan, an extraordinary investor an...
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