Things I read

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models

It's pretty remarkable just how much of the sum total of human knowledge and expertise can be condensed into something that fits into a $90 hard drive. If you lost everything else, this would get you pretty far in terms of covering the basics (and not-so-basics) of most fields.

There’s been a lot of speculation about where we stand on open-weights models. We’ve outlined our views in full here: https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models

I was having a conversation with friends this weekend about inference as a core property of intelligent systems. In the context of machine learning, inference is the moment a trained model is put t…