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Josh Puckett quoted
Designer, advisor and investor
Their words‘Open source’ is as much a community philosophy as it is a licensing concept.
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Our readingLovely computers can have much more life in them if they are run on an efficient operating system.
Their wordsBut these are lovely computers that have so much more life in them if we only feed them an efficient OS.
- 7 days earlier
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Robin Sloan quoted
Novelist and writer, author of Mr
Their wordsAlso: the suc­cess of open source, which larded that open web with huge piles of code to study. Again, this wasn't destiny, and as recently as the 1990s would have seemed improbable.
↗Dragoncatcher: Another accidental advantagerobinsloan.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 1 day earlier
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Sam Altman quoted
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI
Their wordsStandards should help prevent the concentration of power, including by making sure new companies and open-model companies can compete.
- 1 day earlier
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Nathan Lambert quoted
Machine-learning researcher on open language models
Their wordsChinese AI companies are the clear leaders in open weight models.
↗The current balance of power in open modelsinterconnects.ai
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Nathan Lambert quoted
Their wordsThe capabilities gap from open to closed models available to users has been decreasing over the last 3 years.
↗The current balance of power in open modelsinterconnects.ai
- 2 days earlier
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Thorsten Ball quoted
Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast
Their wordsOpen source in its current form doesn’t make sense anymore. “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow” is still true but now we have artificial eyeballs
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com 4th of 15 in this piece
- 2 days earlier
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Simon Willison quoted
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette
Their wordsAny piece of software that depends on open source (which is almost every piece of software) has a network of human beings who are potential attack vectors - everyone with publishing rights to any of the packages in the dependency network for that software.
↗Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceanssimonwillison.net
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Simon Willison quoted
Their wordsI guess our best defense right now is dependency cooldowns - giving new package releases a few days before upgrading to them, in the hope that supply chain attacks like this will be spotted by someone else.
↗Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceanssimonwillison.net
- 4 days earlier
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François Chollet quoted
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark
Their wordsThe only way to avoid extreme power concentration is to ensure we have multiple independent providers of frontier AI models, including open-source options.
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Naval Ravikant quoted
Co-founder of AngelList
Their wordsStrong liability enforcement could be helpful in the AI debate. If your agent swarm goes rogue, you’re liable. If your weakly protected model gets jailbroken, you’re liable. If you serve a weakly protected OSS model, you’re liable.
- 1 day earlier
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Pieter Levels quoted
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone
Their wordsNext in regulatory capture will be banning open source and/or Chinese models, mark my words
↗With regulatory capture we will speedrun to a new feudalist timelevels.io
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Armin Ronacher quoted
Creator of Flask and Jinja
Their wordsthe models that are actually causing issues right now are all closed weight American models. I’m fairly certain if they were open weight models, we would not have that issue.
- 1 day earlier
- NL
Nathan Lambert quoted
Our readingThe performance gap between open and closed AI models has narrowed to roughly 4-6 months.
Their wordsThe open-closed model gap has reduced in recent years, and is now at roughly 4-6 months.
↗Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading Listinterconnects.ai 1st of 3 in this piece
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Nathan Lambert quoted
Our readingSince 2024, the leading open-weight AI models have come from Chinese labs rather than American ones.
Their wordsThe leading open models have all come from Chinese labs since ~2024.
↗Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading Listinterconnects.ai 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Nathan Lambert quoted
Their wordsDistillation - the process of training on output tokens from another model - is the single most eventful debate around open models in 2026.
↗Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading Listinterconnects.ai 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 1 day earlier
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Claire Vo quoted
Founder of ChatPRD and host of the How I AI podcast
Our readingCode is abundant, but customer trust is not.
Their wordsremember code is abundant customer trust is not.
↗Everyone’s shipping more. Does any of it matter? | Claire Vo (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 9th of 10 in this recording
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer
Their wordsTo answer the question posed in the header of this report, it’s apparent that using open models is indeed the approach offering the biggest savings, followed by smart model routing. Spending controls and context optimization also bear down on costs, but they don’t come close to the first two techniques in results.
↗The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI modelsblog.pragmaticengineer.com
- 2 days earlier
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Nathan Lambert quoted
Our readingFrontier Chinese AI labs are moving toward more restrictive licensing terms for their open models.
Their wordsChinese model makers at the frontier, however, are becoming more restrictive
↗Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licensesinterconnects.ai 1st of 2 in this piece
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Stefan Judis quoted
German web developer, writer and conference speaker
Their wordsI know there's some criticism about Interop, but I still think it's a great initiative.
↗Web Weekly #199 (#blogPost)stefanjudis.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Guillermo Rauch quoted
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO
Their wordsBlender beats all its competitors because it's optimal in the most important dimension: agents can train on it and use it efficiently. OSS wins.
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Dax Raad quoted
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly
Their wordsin this whole USA vs China thing OpenAI and Anthropic aren't relevant because they're positioned differently them building better models doesn't hurt china at all the competitor has to be - american - open source - enough compute to do inference at scale that can shift things
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Evil Rabbit quoted
Founding designer at Vercel
Their wordsWe're going to see a lot of a lot of crazy tools and people are going to start open sourcing them. and they're going to start sharing it with the world because if you solve the problem for your team, that probably means that you're going to solve the same problem or other problems, you know, to to other people
↗Evil Rabbit - The story of Evil Rabbit and designing Vercelyoutube.com 15th of 15 in this recording
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Dean W. Ball quoted
Head of strategic futures at OpenAI
Their wordsI am telling you this is inevitable, which means I am also saying that “banning open source,” or for that matter any other regulation, will not solve the problem. Given the inevitability of this outcome, I think it is in fact plausible to argue that we should want more open-weight models to maximally empower our self-defense.
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Ajeya Cotra quoted
AI researcher and grantmaker
Their wordshowever at any given point in time I think the systems we need to worry most about by far are the frontier systems. By the time open source systems can do something like the hugging face attack, frontier systems are going to be on a whole another level doing something even crazier than that.
↗Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"youtube.com 17th of 26 in this recording
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Ajeya Cotra quoted
Their wordsI'm not sure I like agree exactly with the oversight benefit you named of like you know open source systems keeping frontier systems in check feels more unrealistic to me because they're going to be so much dumber than the frontier systems.
↗Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"youtube.com 18th of 26 in this recording
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsBut it actually means that if you take the median programmer and their pull requests towards an average open source project, they're already getting outclassed by agents. I would rather get an agent-written pull request to one of my projects than I'd get one written by a human, and it's not just because the quality's better. It's also because I feel a lot less bad if I just reject it.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 8th of 41 in this recording
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsSo, in my opinion, this is the absolute best time to ever have been an open source software maintainer. Not only do we get this wealth of glorious pull requests made by agents with all the boxes ticked, we also get to tap into a creativity of people who did not have access to contribute to a project before.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 9th of 41 in this recording
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Our reading · no longer heldAn open-weight model is already all anyone needs; it is as good as the frontier models.
Recalls holdingWhen I was instructing the agent, I was like, "Oh my God, Kimi's just as good as these other models."
SaidBut I've been wrong about this before.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 29th of 41 in this recording
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Tom MacWright quoted
Software engineer and writer
Their wordsMapbox GL's license is not open source and requires the developer to have a Mapbox account and follow their Terms of Service.