Nathan Lambert on the state of US open-weight models after Meta's big week

lmoroney · x · 2026-10-19

Laurence Moroney highlights Nathan Lambert's (Ai2, Olmo co-lead) reflection on Meta's big week, the state of US open-weight models, and the outlook for competing with Anthropic and OpenAI. His practical advice for ML learners: pick an open model, fine-tune it on a small dataset you care about, and measure before/after — one loop that teaches much of the craft.

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