Latest open artifacts (#25): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, American-made models, and new regulatory controls in the US & China
The geopolitics of open-weight AI are accelerating again this fall, as we would expect with the risks of all AI…
Podcast: Kimi K3.1 Pro, the new cyber reality, and Muse musings
We — Nathan and Florian — wanted to discuss all the messy trade-offs of a busy week in AI and…
Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker’s dilemma
Hill-climbing is easy, knowing what to hill-climb is hard. Making scores go up is expensive, but we have a much…
Was I wrong about open models & cyber risks?
Last week coined the term “Black October“ after an onslaught of critical vulnerability disclosures, including PHP2Shell and a long-standing GitLab…
How big is the open model economy today?
My longest running agent testbed has been building the Interconnects Dashboard — an aggregator of all of the best data…
What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools
Update (Feb 2026): The full list of open source AI repos is hosted at Good AI List, updated daily. It’s…
Measuring personal growth
My founder friends constantly think about growth. They think about how to measure their business growth and how to get…
Building A Generative AI Platform
After studying how companies deploy generative AI applications, I noticed many similarities in their platforms. This post outlines the common…
Agents
Intelligent agents are considered by many to be the ultimate goal of AI. The classic book by Stuart Russell and…
Common pitfalls when building generative AI applications
As we’re still in the early days of building applications with foundation models, it’s normal to make mistakes. This is…