What's really open about open-weight AI?
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Hello and welcome to The Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of Kimmy K3. I'm your friend David Pearce, and today on the show, we're going to talk about AI models. We've been talking about AI models a lot on the show for the last few weeks in the wake of the open AI hack of Hugging Face and all of these new conversations about AI safety and AI deployment and open weight models and the race with China and how we think about and operate AI in general. It all feels like it's coming to a head in some way right now. So The Verge's Robert Hart is going to come on and he's going to explain to us what's actually going on here. There's a lot of new vocabulary with these bottles and a lot of new questions about how they work and how they're made.
He's going to make sense of all of it for us. I personally am very excited to have somebody finally make sense of all of it for me. We're going to get to that in just a second. But first, here's everything else happening on The Verge today.
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All right, let's talk AI models. Joining me now, Verge reporter Robert Hart. Welcome to the show. First time on the Verge cast.
Yeah, long time listener, first time joiner, so.
Very happy to have you here. And I've brought you here to do maybe the wonkiest thing we have done on this show in some time. We're gonna do a little bit of analysis, a little bit of explainer.
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