For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb
one of the most revolutionary things about AI is that it threatens the foundations of authoritarianism
it's an existential threat to anyone whose power depends on keeping other people ignorant and incapable of thinking for themselves
so whenever a politician says that we need to stop AI progress "until we can control it", believe them
The Gulag Archipelago is a literary mountain to conquer. It takes mental stamina, determination, & a titanic attention span. Getting through it changes your perception of the world forever. It reveals their playbook, & it makes the cost of doing nothing evident.
Read it.
I've summarized where things stand at the AI frontier:
- Unreleased models (Anthropic's Models 3 and 4) are now half-way between AI2027's Agents-1 and 2 (graphs fixed for the bug flagged by the AI2027 authors). @DKokotajlo please let me know if I missed something.
- We're right on track with AI2027's prediction of an automated coder (AC) for April 2027, wild. Public models are now massively lagging unreleased models (1 day vs. 1 week of autonomous high-quality work). Fuelled by RSI, the gap is huge and growing.
- This trajectory, if continued, means a world-changing intelligence explosion in 2027, so the public needs to know. I highly recommend reading more on the topic to grasp what's coming.