Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison
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- Blog / Newsletter2026-08-01 07:15:56Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison
<p><strong><a href="https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-open-weight-revolution-with-simon-willison">Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison</a></strong></p> On Monday Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal invited me to join their podcast to talk about the <em>wild</em> week we've had - with Kimi K3 showing open weight models can stand toe-to-toe with proprietary frontier ones, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/">accidental cybersecurity attacks</a>, and public letters about <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/open-weight/">Open Weights and American AI Leadership</a> signed by almost every big name in AI (with one <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models">notable exception</a>).</p> <p>It was a great conversation, even though it's already out-of-date! <a href="https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-flash">DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731</a> and <a href