Open-weight models: how often the top podcasts talk about it.
Open-weight models came up in 14 of 89 episodes (16%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, about the same share as in the earlier weeks (15%).
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 14 episodes behind the newest bar
- The $10 Trillion Token Economy — Alex Atallah, OpenRouter & Anjney Midha, AMPLatent Space · week ending Sep 27 · said it 3 times
- Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Align…All-In Podcast · week ending Sep 27 · said it 6 times
- Computer-Use Agents and the Future of the Agentic InternetPractical AI · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- Why Bridgewater's CIO Says AI's Human Extinction Risk Is RealOdd Lots · week ending Sep 13 · said it 8 times
- Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabsFounders Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvementDwarkesh Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · said it 5 times
- Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 13 · said it 5 times
- Model Mayhem, Nvidia Hugging Face, Pablo Torre Joins, New Data Center DesignsTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 3 times
- Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · said it 5 times
- The OpenAI/Hugging Face attack, clearly explainedDwarkesh Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · said it 3 times
- Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging FaceDwarkesh Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · said it 4 times
- How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 6 · said it 8 times
- NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 6 · said it 4 times
Earliest mentions in our archive
The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.
“…you know, what you're going to see is the open source models are probably one step back from the absolute frontier. Um…”
Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlene…
“…engineered is we're now a year later. There's a bunch of open- source models out there that have the same level of…”
Anthropic’s $30B Ramp, Mythos Doomsday, OpenClaw Ankled, Iran War Ceasefire, Israel's Inf…
“…you have all these great options available from closed source to open source models. the open source models…”
Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
“…interesting like play it out a little bit. China you know these open source models are around eight months behind…”
Sam vs Elon Trial, Coinbase Cuts 14% in AI Pivot, Digesting Meta Earnings | Diet TBPN
“Yeah. Yeah. So we uh decided, you know, even though we we did launch a open source model DBRX and you know, we we…”
The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
“…agents pre-logged in in here. And you can also use some of the open source models if you want.”
How I run autonomous coding agents from my phone with OpenAI Symphony + Linear
Most recent mentions
The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.
“…this was to my knowledge the first time an open weights model was called that in real seriousness…”
The $10 Trillion Token Economy — Alex Atallah, OpenRouter & Anjney Midha, AMP
“…which is the Alibaba model, comes out version, you know, 2.1. It's an open weights model that outperforms Nano…”
Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Align…
“…of harness, if you're trying to run Pi or some of the Hermes or whatever, you know what? It's actually like maybe you're going to do better on some open-source models, and a lot of these open-source models coming from China are really great with that. And so there was something that a friend, my…”
“…have a stamping process that people that get to use the more dangerous models actually themselves meet some security thresholds. And then with open-source models, you have another major challenge because if you look at Bridgewater, one of the most successful things we've done, you talked a…”
Why Bridgewater's CIO Says AI's Human Extinction Risk Is Real
“- Which companies were doing that, the research? - There were some good NVIDIA models, open-source models. - But wait, it's just an independent researcher.”
Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 4 | 20 |
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 3 | 3 |
| All-In Podcast | 1 | 12 |
| Latent Space | 1 | 8 |
| TBPN | 1 | 7 |
| Founders Podcast | 1 | 1 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 1 | 1 |
| Odd Lots | 1 | 1 |
| Practical AI | 1 | 1 |
| How I AI | 0 | 1 |
| Lex Fridman Podcast | 0 | 1 |
| No Priors | 0 | 1 |
More trends
Episodes in the newest four weeks:
How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “open weight” or “open source model” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.