Nat Lambert: open models deserve attention more than frontier lab drama
deliprao · x · 2026-09-08
Nat Lambert argues that while critics pile on him for defending OpenAI/Anthropic on one narrow point, the real story is the wave of new, fun, and powerful open models — a far better use of attention than frontier lab drama. Delip Rao pushes back gently: Lambert's newsletters stand on their own, and how the most powerful companies of the future behave is worth clear-eyed coverage in its own right.
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