Nathan Lambert @natolambert

Very timely appearance on the a16z podcast with @lishali88, to try to understand how open models play into RSI dynamics, who captures value of open models, wrangling agent swarms, and why I'm building Trillium Labs. [引用 @a16z]: Nathan Lambert, former post-training co-lead at the Allen Institute for AI, now launching Trillium, a nonprofit open AI lab, joins a16z's Lisha Li to discuss whether open models can really keep up with the frontier. When he tells researchers in China that an average OpenAI researcher reportedly has five thousand H100s to work with, "their jaw just falls to the floor." In his view, Chinese labs h…

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