Nathan Lambert launches nonprofit open AI lab Trillium, says Chinese researchers gasp at OpenAI's 5,000 H100s per researcher
willdepue · x · 2026-10-15
Nathan Lambert, former post-training co-lead at the Allen Institute for AI, has launched Trillium, a nonprofit open AI lab, and joined a16z's Lisha Li on a podcast to discuss whether open models can keep up with the frontier.
Key points:
- When he tells researchers in China that an average OpenAI researcher reportedly has 5,000 H100s to work with, "their jaw just falls to the floor."
- He lays out his view on the compute gap between Chinese labs and frontier US labs, and what path open labs have to stay relevant.
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