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Nathan Lambert publishes an open-source AI reading list that pegs the open-closed gap at 4-6 months
The Interconnects list, published 11 September and updated 13 September, organizes the field into four sections covering strategy and economics, US-China competition, and technical detail on distillation and cybersecurity. Its load-bearing claim is that the open-to-closed performance gap has narrowed to roughly 4-6 months, alongside documentation of Western companies adopting Chinese models for cost reasons. It is the single best starting bibliography for anyone deciding whether to build on open weights right now, and it reached 131 points on Hacker News.
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