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Interconnects Podcast #20 Debates Kimi K3.1 Pro and Open-Weight Cybersecurity
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Interconnects Podcast #20 brings its hosts together to debate difficult questions after a turbulent week in AI. They discuss the mixed reaction to Kimi K3.1 Pro’s benchmarks and whether it will be adopted, the risks of open-weight models and cybersecurity, and why cyber experts and AI experts view recent events differently. The episode also asks what might change in the next few months and what could change the hosts’ minds.
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More changes in today’s briefingMistral releases improved Mistral Large 4 open weights for coding and cybersecurityInterconnects Podcast #20: We got together to debate hard questions and messy realities after a crazy, somewhat intimidating, week in the AI world:
- Why did Kimi K3.1 Pro have a mixed reaction with such incredible benchmarks? Will it be adopted?
- Were we wrong about the risks of open-weight models and cybersecurity?
- Why do cyber experts discuss recent events so differently than AI experts?
- What comes next in the few months? What will change our minds?
Chapters:
00:00 Kimi K3.1 Reaction
08:15 Kimi’s open-weight cyber principles
11:23 You can hack everything era
15:54 PHP2Shell, LiteLLM, and the new internet
24:00 Abliterated APIs, safeguards, and trusted access
31:41 Anthropic not hiring juniors employees
36:16 Florian’s Muse addiction
45:30 Wrap-up
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