State of the blog, mid-2026

As I navigate my career change after Ai2, I wanted to share my views of how this blog relates to my missions and broader work. In my farewell post, I summarized my three goals right now as: Provide clarity in the evolution of frontier models. Provide clarity in the evolution of frontier models. Create a vibrant and diverse open (model) ecosystem. Create a vibrant and diverse open (model) ecosystem. To build institutions that make these goals possible. To build institutions that make these goals possible. Within this, Interconnects is at its core a bit different than many of the highly-polished, professional newsletters on this platform – and this is becoming intentional. Interconnects is the tip of the spear of all of my missions in AI. It is meant to start a conversation and to let the reader into the mind of someone at the frontier. This insight makes the writing sometimes a bit raw, sometimes a bit too technical,…