Episodes: 166
Frequency: Several times a week
Rating: 4.4/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Gender skew: Male
Listener location: USA
Publicly listed emails
mail@interconnects.ai
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Nathan Lambert - Artificial intelligence researcher and writer focused on machine learning, open models, AI capabilities, and safety. He previously researched open-source language models at the Allen Institute for AI.
Jean-Stanislas Denain - Recursive Self-improvement, AI Progress, Robotics, The U.s.-china AI Capabilities Gap, Open Versus Closed Models, AI Safety, And Frontier-model Post-training.
Meta shakes up the frontiers, open and closed
October 17, 2026
This has been a week where the balance of American open-weight models took a step change back toward the frontier. Meta took the lead of this charge with Muse Spark Open, which is now the strongest American-made open model by quite some margin, but the addition of Reflection’s first model Beam is also relevant. Without these two models, there would be 20+ open-weight models built and released by Chinese companies better than the best Western models. At the time of writing this, Mistral has al...
The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken
October 06, 2026
I’ve had one too many discussions on the cyber risks of open models — where someone assumes that either banning open models happens in a silo (and bad actors will somehow actually be stopped) or that China is a threat and doesn’t care about AI safety — that I feel we’re going to end up making policy decisions that both limit American AI competitiveness and increases long-term cyber risk. I feel like we’re locked in on a path of lose-lose situation, unless people embrace nuance, trade-offs, an...
Debating RSI, the US-China Gap, and Jaggedness with JS Denain of Epoch AI
September 22, 2026
This episode is with Jean-Stanislas “JS” Denain of Epoch AI, who leads their Insights Team and is one of the people I find myself debating the state and trajectory of AI with more and more. We’ve had follow-on discussions of many of my favorite recent posts online and/or in private, so I wanted to dig into the nuance in a public episode.A big takeaway of this podcast is how JS and I both have so much uncertainty with exactly where we are heading, and this was our best effort at stating our ob...
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Interconnects typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Leading or highly specialized AI researchers, machine-learning scientists, open-model developers, AI safety experts, and policy or industry analysts with credible technical expertise and a strong record of research, institutional work, or public analysis. Common among recent guests: Senior research or leadership roles at prominent AI organizations; Published research or influential technical analysis; Expertise in frontier AI capabilities, open models, AI safety, or AI policy. Recent guests include Jean-Stanislas Denain.
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