Offers a candid, expert discussion connecting Kimi K3's release to the broader open-weight policy debate and recent AI security incidents, giving engineers context beyond a dry benchmark report.
A podcast conversation where Simon Willison joins Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal to discuss a major week in AI news, including Kimi K3 demonstrating that open-weight models can rival proprietary frontier models, recent AI-related cybersecurity incidents, and a public letter on open weights and American AI leadership signed by most major AI figures.
The episode also revisits past predictions and adds a new one about the Pope commenting on open models by year's end, alongside tangents on Golden Gate Claude, the Zizians, and Soviet Marburg virus research.
Transcript
Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison On Monday Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal invited me to join their podcast to talk about the wild week we've had - with Kimi K3 showing open weight models can stand toe-to-toe with proprietary frontier ones, accidental cybersecurity attacks , and public letters about Open Weights and American AI Leadership signed by almost every big name in AI (with one notable exception ). It was a great conversation, even though it's already out-of-date! DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 and Anthropic's own embarrassing cyber incident would absolutely have made the cut if we had recorded just a few days later. We also talk about Golden Gate Claude , the Zizians , Alameda wild turkey attacks , Soviet Marburg virus research , the Lead-crime hypothesis , and a bunch of other worthy digressions. Finally, we revisited some of our predictions from January , and we added a new Pope prediction : Prediction by the end of this year: the Pope says something about open models. Tags: predictions , ai , generative-ai , local-llms , llms , oxide , bryan-cantrill , podcast-appearances , ai-in-china , ai-security-research
