Interconnects Artifacts 25: 28 new models, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and US-China regulatory controls
natolambert · x · 2026-10-21
Nathan Lambert's Interconnects AI newsletter released issue #25 (Artifacts 25), covering DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, American-made models, and new regulatory controls in the US & China.
The issue rounds up 28 notable releases from 24 orgs including DeepSeek, NVIDIA, Liquid AI, Xiaomi, Cloudflare, Reflection AI, Meta, StepFun, InternLM, Cohere, Mistral, Perplexity, Google, Black Forest Labs, Qwen, and Fish Audio.
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