Great to speak at ETH Zurich Zurich about the role of open models in our future AI ecosystem. Went for a little walk up Mt Rigi afterwards—6,000ft, bananas for scale. Glad to see Effy Vayena, Agata Ferretti, ETH Zurich & the AI Alliance driving this vital conversation in Europe!

A few days before inauguration, we argued in The Hill that "to win in AI, the U.S. must champion open-source diplomacy... Rather than treating open models as a threat, the new administration should embrace them as an opportunity—to accelerate domestic AI adoption, shape global AI

Sad to hear of Jim Lovell's passing today. Naval aviator, NASA legend, and my childhood hero 🚀💥🪂

Troubling to see "model welfare" normalized in corporate blogs. There are so many other ways to justify a chatbot ending a session: system integrity, third party safety, user de-escalation. Cheap sensationalism like "model welfare" dehumanizes the real people affected by Claude.