Breaking down the 2026 Stanford AI Index Report

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1. 01Dan: And for context, so some of you may or may not have have listened to our previous episodes where Stanford Stanford's Human Centered Artificial Intelligence center institute
2. 02We had some representatives on from Stanford that actually shared, you know, what it is, how it's created, and I'm sure that's updated somewhat over time, but that would be a great
3. 03We kind of realized that things were changing back, but for a while we were pretty convinced open source models were gonna completely catch up with plateau models because that's th