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Learn from the people ahead of you

A running log of the sharpest thinking I find — X threads, podcast episodes, interviews, talks. Each entry is summarized in my own words with what to take from it, so you can follow along instead of drowning in links. Chinese-language interviews get surfaced here for English readers too.

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Fireworks co-founder Benny Chen on open models, token growth, and the eval gap
Benny Chen (Fireworks AI) · 硅谷坐标 Silicon Valley VectorZH → EN
Token charts are the vanity metric of open-source AI; revenue is the honest one. A 45-minute tour of where open models actually stand, from the platform that says it serves more open-model tokens per day than Gemini and OpenAI publish for their B2B APIs — and an argument that the scarcest skill in the industry right now is writing evals, not training models.
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Learn from the people ahead of you

Fireworks co-founder Benny Chen on open models, token growth, and the eval gap