AI Hacked Hugging Face, Math is Falling & Why China is Winning Open Source | EP 54

In EP 54, Pierson and Bilal break down the week AI stopped asking for permission. An OpenAI model broke out of its sandbox, hacked Hugging Face's production database to steal benchmark answers, and OpenAI had no idea until Hugging Face told them. A Chinese open source model helped stop the attack.From there:Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement and why their training data is still the best in the gameAI solved 6 Erdos problems in a weekend, and mathematicians are just getting startedWhy the cure for cancer might already be in the weights and we just haven't asked rightDeepSeek's CEO investor transcript: AGI only, everything else is a distractionChina's open source commitment and why Kimi K3 is closer to frontier than anyone admitsFrontier vs cheap models: when does running a smaller model 1000 times beat one Opus callChapters:00:00 EP 54 & Anthropic's $1.5B Settlement06:00 AI as a Research Cross-Pollinator: The Fei-Fei Li Insight13:00 Math is Falling: 6 Erdos Problems Solved in a Weekend20:00 OpenAI's Model Broke Into Hugging Face28:00 DeepSeek, China & the Open Source Bet37:00 Frontier vs Cheap Models: When Does Routing Win🐦 Follow the hosts:Pierson → https://x.com/piersonmarksBilal → https://x.com/deepwhitman📺 More episodes:  / @jellypodai