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The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison
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Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a wild couple of weeks in AI. First, we have a high-profile, AI-induced, AI-diagnosed security incident. Next we have the rise of frontier-class open-weights models. Who's for or against open weights? Do they make for a more or less secure future? Exciting times! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guest was Simon Willison . Previously, on Oxide and Friends: OxF: Shell Game with Evan Ratliff OxF: Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund OxF: Predictions 2025 OxF: Predictions 2026!! OxF: Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball OxF: OpenAI's Boardroom Brawl Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit…