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26 27</head> 28<body class="body"> 29 <div class="content-wrapper"> 30 <div class="container-adjust-width w-container"> 31 <div class="about-wrapper"><img src="assets/headshots/nathan-lambert-headshot.jpeg" alt="" sizes="(max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 991px) 728px, 940px" srcset="assets/headshots/nathan-lambert-headshot-p-500.jpeg 500w, assets/headshots/nathan-lambert-headshot-p-800.jpeg 800w, assets/headshots/nathan-lambert-headshot-p-1080.jpeg 1080w, assets/headshots/nathan-lambert-headshot-p-1600.jpeg 1600w, assets/headshots/nathan-lambert-headshot.jpeg 4128w" class="circle-profile-small-tight"> 32 <div class="about-block"> 33 <h1 class="site-name navigation-link"><strong><em class="italic-text-site">Nathan LAMBERT</em></strong></h1> 34 <div class="space-5"></div> 35 <div class="w-richtext"> 36 <p class="paragraph-3">Nathan is the Co-founder and Executive Director of <a href="https://trilliumlabs.org/">Trillium Labs</a>, a nonprofit fostering the open science of frontier AI. He is a <strong>machine learning researcher</strong> who works on building, understanding, and advocating for open language models and other responsible autonomous systems.</p> 37 </div> 38 <div class="rich-text-block-9 w-richtext"> 39 <p class="homepage-links-grid"> 40 <span><strong>Papers</strong> â <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=O4jW7BsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate">Google Scholar</a> or <a href='/cv'>CV</a></span> 41 <span><strong>Talks</strong> â See <a href='/slides'>Library</a></span> 42 <span><strong>Newsletter</strong> â <a href="https://www.interconnects.ai/">Interconnects.ai</a></span> 43 <span><strong>Book</strong> â <a href="https://rlhfbook.com/">RLHF Book</a> ('26)</span> 44 <span class="homepage-links-wide"><strong>Open Models</strong> â <a href="https://artifactshub.ai/">Artifacts Hub</a> ('26), <a href="https://dashboard.interconnects.ai/">Adoption Dashboard</a> ('26), <a href="https://atomproject.ai/">ATOM Project</a> ('25)</span> 45 </p> 46 </div> 47 <div class="w-layout-grid grid-center"> 48 <a href="https://twitter.com/natolambert" target="_blank" class="social-icon-link-pad w-inline-block"><img src="assets/icons/twitter.svg" width="30" alt="" class="icon-image"></a> 49 <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=O4jW7BsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate" target="_blank" class="social-icon-link-scholar w-inline-block"><img src="assets/icons/google-scholar.svg" width="30" alt="Google Scholar Logo." class="icon-image"></a> 50 <a href="https://github.com/natolambert" target="_blank" class="social-icon-link-pad w-inline-block"><img src="assets/icons/github.svg" width="30" alt="Github Logo." class="icon-image"></a> 51 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/natolambert/" target="_blank" class="social-icon-link-pad w-inline-block"><img src="assets/icons/linkedin.svg" width="30" alt="LinkedIn Logo." class="icon-image"></a> 52 <a class='social-icon-link-pad w-inline-block' href='/contact'><img src="assets/icons/email.svg" width="30" alt="Email logo." class="icon-image"></a> 53 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@natolambert" target="_blank" class="social-icon-link-pad w-inline-block"><img src="assets/icons/youtube.svg" width="30" alt="" class="icon-image"></a> 54 <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/natolambert.bsky.social" target="_blank" class="social-icon-link-pad-threads w-inline-block hide-mobile"><img src="assets/icons/bluesky.svg" width="30" alt="" class="icon-image"></a> 55 <a href="https://www.threads.com/@natolambert" target="_blank" class="social-icon-link-pad w-inline-block hide-mobile"><img src="assets/icons/threads.svg" width="30" alt="Threads Logo." class="icon-image"></a> 56 </div> 57 </div> 58 </div> 59 <div class="about-wrapper"> 60 <div class="blog-body w-richtext"> 61 <p><strong>Recent</strong>: I've launched <a href="https://trilliumlabs.org/">Trillium Labs</a> to foster the open science of frontier AI (read our introduction post <a href="https://blog.trilliumlabs.org/p/introducing-trillium-labs">here</a>). My <a href="https://rlhfbook.com/">RLHF Book</a> is done! I've also launched a <a href="https://rlhfbook.com/course">post-training course</a> to accompany it. In April I had the pleasure of visiting a lot of open model labs in China; read my <a href="https://www.interconnects.ai/p/notes-from-inside-chinas-ai-labs">trip report here</a>.</p> 62 <h4>Podcast appearances</h4> 63 <div id="podcast-content"> 64 <p>I host <a href="https://www.interconnects.ai/t/interviews">Interconnects Interviews</a>
64 covering the latest technical trends in AI. Otherwise, I sometimes appear on friends' podcasts:</p> 65 <ul role="list"> 66 <li> 67 <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/00uQfamQ3XmOck7AhmKJoW">Sep. 2026: ChinaTalk (ModelTalk)</a> - Pacing the Frontier, with Jasmine Sun. 68 </li> 69 <li> 70 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULi-TCF2cQE">Jul. 2026: Valley101</a> - I went on a popular Chinese language podcast to discuss my trip to China's AI labs. 71 </li> 72 <li> 73 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKMPI8KLuO4">Jun. 2026: High Capacity</a> - Mythos, China, and a New Era of AI Regulation. 74 </li> 75 </ul> 76 <div id="older-podcasts-toggle" style="cursor: pointer; user-select: none; margin-top: -8px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 40px; color: #666; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-color: #ccc; text-underline-offset: 2px;" onclick="document.getElementById('older-podcasts-content').style.display='block'; this.style.display='none';"> 77 Show more... 78 </div> 79 <ul role="list" id="older-podcasts-content" style="display: none; margin-top: -5px;"> 80 <li> 81 <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/4kVxL31hoAnMPYMGq7Q5VP">Jun. 2026: ChinaTalk</a> - The Claude Fable drama, whether AI is actually productive, and advice for graduates. 82 </li> 83 <li> 84 <a href="https://aiproem.substack.com/p/nathan-lambert-reflects-on-chinas">May 2026: AI Proem</a> - Reflections on China's AI labs, open models, DeepSeek, and the US-China AI race. 85 </li> 86 <li> 87 <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai-sota-2026/">Feb. 2026: Lex Fridman</a> - My second time on Lex's podcast, covering everything in AI! 88 </li> 89 <li> 90 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq_V6zAjsSI">Feb. 2026: Turing Post</a> - Conversation on open models, reasoning systems, and where AI is headed. 91 </li> 92 <li> 93 <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/1I9ZxCFwFNXVZTCzpCBbKN">Jan. 2026: ChinaTalk</a> - Overfit: Claude Code is Everything, Trump Vibe Codes. 94 </li> 95 <li> 96 <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/7t8mdt2ry0hszgVhPiJwWh?si=145cd512c2ac4846">Dec. 2025: Overfit</a> - NeurIPS Vibes, Research Doesn't Matter, OpenAI Cooked? 97 </li> 98 <li> 99 <a href="https://youtu.be/HGoQnDFHTVA">Nov. 2025: The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck;</a> Open Source AI Strikes Back -- Inside Ai2's Olmo 3 Thinking. 100 </li> 101 <li> 102 <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/1xQfUg6gl2sBFDJvlMr3O3">Nov. 2025: Overfit</a> - AI Lovers, Chinese Model Takeover, Vice Signalling, Hefei Model. 103 </li> 104 <li> 105 <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0dN5fHptVvxpJEzENIwuRt?si=bJPKQaDIQYa2wOjsMetaJQ">Sep. 2025: ChinaTalk</a> - Overfit: Shenzhen vs SF Vibes, Model Progress, Jordan a Berkeley Bowl Hater. 106 </li> 107 <li> 108 <a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/scaling-laws--the-open-questions-surrounding-open-source-ai-with-nathan-lambert-and-keegan-mcbride">Aug. 2025: Lawfare's "Scaling Laws"</a> - The Open Questions Surrounding Open Source AI. 109 </li> 110 <li> 111 <a href="https://www.nonzero.org/p/the-open-source-ai-question-robert-4c1">Aug. 2025: Nonzero (The Wright Show)</a> - The Open Source AI Question. 112 </li> 113 <li> 114 <a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/chinatalkâoverfitâai-and-mediaâamerica-s-deepseekâplots">Jul. 2025: ChinaTalk</a> - Overfit: AI and Media, America's DeepSeek, Plots. 115 </li> 116 <li> 117 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAz_-xPJcRM">Jul. 2025: Latent Space</a> - The RLVR Revolution. 118 </li> 119 <li> 120 <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5yPJwQkzhRPuEsLHuZTq1o">May 2025: ChinaTalk</a> - Sycophancy, US-China Competition, RL agents, and some career advice. 121 </li> 122 <li> 123 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1f-o0nqpEI">Feb. 2025: Lex Fridman</a> - DeepSeek and what it means for AI. 124 </li> 125 <li> 126 <a href="https://www.aisummer.org/p/nathan-lambert-on-the-rise-of-thinking">Jan. 2025</a>: AI Summer - (a new podcast from friends Tim and Dean) discussing post-training and reasoning models. 127 </li> 128 <li> 129 <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6e9s5wCEQFtdr2H73E6fLy">Dec. 2024: ChinaTalk</a> - the biggest AI stories of the year and what it's like to train SOTA AI models. 130 </li> 131 <li> 132 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVXtFnEbNU0">Nov. 2024: The Cognitive Revolution</a> - a tour of the state-of-the-art in LM post-training (also on <a href="https://sub.thursdai.news/p/thursdai-nov-21-the-fight-for-the">ThursdAI</a> for that week). 133 </li> 134 <li> 135 <a href="https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast/reinforcement-learning-from-human-feedback-rlhf-with-dr-nathan-lambert">Jun. 2024: SuperDataScience</a> - a general show covering trends in RLHF and robotics + LLMs. 136 </li> 137 <li> 138 <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/2rGhuci7OD9gFSJB0dkNzh">May. 2024: ChinaTalk</a> - recent trends in AI policy, and of course China. 139 </li> 140 <li> 141 <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e10-decoding-ai-hype-a-practical-guide-to/id1678774315?i=1000646917087">Feb. 2024: Practically Intelligent</a>
141 - Discussing how to maintain a media diet in ML and cut through the hype. 142 </li> 143 <li> 144 <a href="https://www.latent.space/p/rlhf-201">Jan. 2024: Latent Space</a> - RLHF lecture and Q&A. 145 </li> 146 <li> 147 <a href="https://sharongoldman.substack.com/p/2024-a-hot-mess-chatting-with-nathan">Dec. 2023: Sharon's AI Extra</a> - predictions for 2024. 148 </li> 149 <li> 150 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8xxEkH3a5g">Sep. 2023: Generating Conversation</a> - RLHF and LLM evaluation. 151 </li> 152 <li> 153 <a href="https://www.latent.space/p/llama2#details">Jul. 2023: Latent Space</a> - Llama 2 launch. 154 </li> 155 <li> 156 <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e4-evaluating-large-language-models-with-nathan-lambert/id1678774315?i=1000624678851">Jul. 2023: Practically Intelligent</a> - evaluation and open-source LLMs. 157 </li> 158 <li> 159 <a href="https://www.talkrl.com/episodes/nathan-lambert">Mar. 2021: TalkRL podcast</a> - model-based RL. 160 </li> 161 <li>Jan. 2021: Software Engineering Daily - mixed research roundup.</li> 162 </ul> 163 </div> 164 <style> 165 @media screen and (max-width: 479px) { 166 .hide-mobile { display: none !important; } 167 } 168 </style> 169 <div class="blog-body w-richtext"> 170 <h4>Guides</h4> 171 <p>Some useful links for graduate students and academics.</p> 172 <ul role="list"> 173 <li><a href='/guides/how-to-review-a-paper'>How to Review a Paper</a> - My process for writing thorough paper reviews.</li> 174 <li><a href='/guides/grad-apps'>Applying to Graduate School</a> - Advice for prospective graduate students.</li> 175 </ul> 176 <h4>Popular Posts</h4> 177 <p>Some of my most popular posts before transitioning to Substack (<a href="https://www.interconnects.ai/archive?sort=top" target="_blank">Top Posts there</a>).</p> 178 <ul role="list"> 179 <li><a href='/writing/ai-phd-job-hunt'>Job Search as a PhD in ML</a> - My experience on the AI job market.</li> 180 <li><a href="https://www.interconnects.ai/p/ai-research-job-market" target="_blank">AI Research Job Market (Part 2)</a> - Follow-up thoughts on the job market.</li> 181 <li><a href='/writing/debugging-mbrl'>Debugging Model-Based RL Systems</a> - Practical debugging strategies.</li> 182 </ul> 183 <h4>Other</h4> 184 <ul role="list"> 185 <li><a href='/contact'>Contact</a> - Get in touch with me.</li> 186 <li><a href='/bookshelf'>Bookshelf</a> - Books I've read and recommend.</li> 187 <li><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/natolambert" target="_blank">Buy me a âï¸</a> - Support my work.</li> 188 <li><a href="https://retortai.com/">The Retort</a> - Retired podcast on the political economy of AI.</li> 189 <li><a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Nathan-Lambert/2052363815">Semantic Scholar</a> · <a href="https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2022/EECS-2022-65.html">PhD Thesis</a></li> 190 </ul> 191 </div> 192 </div> 193 </div> 194 </div> 195 <footer style="text-align: center; padding: 20px; border-top: 1px solid #eee; margin-top: 20px;"> 196 <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> 197 <a href='/' style='margin: 0 15px; text-decoration: none; color: #333;'>Home</a> 198 <a href='/contact' style='margin: 0 15px; text-decoration: none; color: #333;'>Contact</a> 199 </div> 200 <div style="font-size: 14px; color: #666;"> 201 Copyright © 2021-2026 Nathan Lambert. 202 </div> 203 </footer> 204 <a rel="me" href="https://sigmoid.social/@natolambert"></a> 205</body> 206</html>
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