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Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight

aired Jul 31, 2026 · 71.0m
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Summary

So there's a lot of noise about AI, but time's too tight for more promises.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, know, think, including: So let's talk about results.

Key takeaways
  1. 01You know, as a journalist, we're often discouraged from participating in activism, so I usually do not
  2. 02The first one came out when Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, posted a policy letter on X opposing what he called premature restrictions on open weight models sometimes also called
  3. 03So this letter from Jensen Huang and the other signatories is basically all about open models and how important they are to innovation, how they can be an important path to AI safe
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research-minded practitioners comparing model behavior