Nathan Lambert

@natolambert

Open model research, founder, director @trillium_labs. Prev. co-led Olmo at Ai2. Writes @interconnectsai, wrote posttrainingbook.com

Cambridge, MA

natolambert.com

Joined December 2014

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Nathan Lambert
@natolambert
Oct 2
Today we're unveiling Trillium Labs @trillium_labs, a new non-profit to foster the open science of frontier AI. We're building open post-training recipes and will expand into open infra to study RSI, reward-hacking, multi-agent systems, and whatever comes next. We're built
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Nathan Lambert
@natolambert
11h
Naming the github repo for this "math" is hilarious
OpenAI
@OpenAI
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We’re releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model. We’ve been consulting with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study, and we have drawn on their advice and
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Nathan Lambert
@natolambert
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I’m also coming around that we need to legalize distillation in the US. Banning is impossible and otherwise strategic competition becomes really untenable in a few years.
Nathan Lambert
@natolambert
Oct 5
Reflection joins the list of Nvidia & Thinking Machines who have released their strongest models and come up behind Chinese counterparts. There's a lot of ways people will overthink this, but the clearest takeaway should be that the Chinese are very very good at building LLMs.
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Nathan Lambert
@natolambert
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People dunking on open models for cyber risks aren't really taking into account evidence of closed model risk, are fear-mongering (especially wrt China), and ignoring evidence that a mythos-class cyber model being released has largely been fine. 🌶️ one.
The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken
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Nathan Lambert
@natolambert
22h
A chonky week for Western open models!
Mistral AI
@MistralAI
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Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk. • 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active. It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks. • State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses
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