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Nathan Lambert

What Nathan Lambert thinks about America

@nathan-lambert · 55 positions · 1 change of mind · On ppll ↗

Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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6 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Nathan Lambert has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingOpen-weight models are becoming an essential tool for AI diffusion.

    China

    Their wordsOpen-weight models are becoming an essential tool for AI diffusion, and the best path to get ahead of these risks and unbalanced relationships where American companies rely on models built in China is to continue to enable investment in open models in the US.

    ↗The current balance of power in open modelsinterconnects.ai

  2. 10 days earlier

  3. 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

  4. 2 days earlier

  5. Our readingEven after decades of AI-driven progress, most people's daily material lives will look largely unchanged.

    Their wordsIt feels very likely in 50 years that the average American's day to day life looks very similar.

    ↗When will average people feel AI’s impact?interconnects.ai 1st of 3 in this piece

  7. Our readingAI is becoming as fundamental to knowledge work as electricity was to industry.

    energy

    Their wordsFor knowledge work, which is roughly half of the U.S. economy, AI is as fundamental as electricity (or quickly will be so, with rapid improvements to agents in the next 18 months).

    ↗When will average people feel AI’s impact?interconnects.ai 2nd of 3 in this piece

  8. 19 months earlier

  9. Our readingMaking safety your number one goal costs real release speed, and on a steep progress curve that shows up directly as a worse-looking model.

    Anthropic

    Their wordsWe know that a lot of the American companies are very invested in safety, and that is the central culture of a place like Anthropic. And I think Anthropic sounds like a wonderful place to work, but if safety is your number one goal, it takes way longer to get artifacts out.

    ↗DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459youtube.com 18th of 44 in this recording

  11. Our readingOpen-source AI is still an ideological mission rather than an ecosystem, because it has none of the feedback loops that make open-source software compound.

    LLMsopen sourcemotivation

    Their wordsuntil there are feedback loops of open source AI, it seems like mostly an ideological mission. People like Mark Zuckerberg, which is like America needs this and I agree with him, but in the time where the motivation ideologically is high, we need to capitalize and build this ecosystem around, what benefits do you get from seeing the language model data?

    ↗DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459youtube.com 42nd of 44 in this recording