Gemma

State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #490

Lex Fridman

Open-weight model mentioned as one of the notable players alongside Quen and GPT OSS.

Goodfire AI’s Bet: Interpretability as the Next Frontier of Model Design — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell

Latent Space

The Magic of LLM Distillation — Rishabh Agarwal, Google DeepMind

Latent Space

Used in experiments demonstrating both compute-matched and cost-matched distillation strategies, highlighting the benefits of using smaller, cheaper models for data generation.

Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash Thinking: the new SOTA models for the agentic era

Latent Space

An open model from Google that people are excited about, with Kathleen from the Gemma team presenting.

Why is everyone cloning Deep Research?

Latent Space

Google's open-source models that can be fine-tuned, mentioned in the context of replicating Deep Research functionality.