Artificial Intelligence · 17.08.2026, 15:25 UTC
Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | Interconnects (Nathan Lambert) ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 17.08.2026 UTC |
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Housekeeping: No voiceover for this post as I’m traveling.The oldest comparison people try to make is how what’s happening with open models compares to foundational open-source software projects like the Linux operating system. There are fairly clean analogies, but they paint a narrow path forwards for the self-sustaining nature of the open-source model ecosystem, where once Linux got big enough it was going to be self-fulfilling as the best possible tool for many jobs. The open-source language model – i.e. only models that come with a full training recipe, data, code, etc. – is a closer analogue to the open-source operating system. The open weight models you use – those with just model weights and inference code to run them – are closer to specific versions of software that you install in a project built upon them.ShareModel weights are very transient on average, but they still have a long shelf life, as with a lot of heavily used software. It’s why many companies are still using workflows built on Llama 3, despite agentic behaviors taking off years later. The open-source recipe, typified in modern times by the Olmo models I helped build at Ai2, with its predecessors like Pythia from EleutherAI, is a resource intensive process that any company can pick up, modify, and press “run” on to produce a new set of model weights. In the best cases, the community can contribute improvements in data or training code back into the next model too! This is why Nvidia is investing so much in nearly open-source models – for their Nemotron models they release all the data they legally can …