# minute mile (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover minute mile. Page: Feed: --- ## [Open source models are having a moment](http://sriramk.com/open-source-models-having-a-moment) _2026-07-15 · Sriram Krishnan_ It is clear open source models and harnesses are having a moment. There’s a few factors at work. 1/ It is now obvious that you can catch up to near-SOTA performance and do so with a clear training lineage. See Thinking Machines Inkling launch today. 2/ There are several well-funded, talented teams building open weight models now in the US and abroad. Along with the explosion of other near SOTA… ## [The Odyssey](http://sriramk.com/the-odyssey) _2026-07-11 · Sriram Krishnan_ I was fortunate to be at the world premier of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey a few days ago. I was asked to hold reviews until the movie releases but allowed to post reactions so will try to tread that line. The topline: this will be the movie of the year, will leave a deep impact on any viewer and will go down as one of the great epic movies made. If Nolan doesn’t win Best Director for this, we… ## [Back to writing](http://sriramk.com/back-to-writing) _2026-07-11 · Sriram Krishnan_ I’m going to make a commitment to writing often here, perhaps as often as once a day. There are a few contributing factors here. First, I’m out of government and can speak more freely. Though at no time did anyone ever tell me to watch what I said, my default was to not opine on anything online. Second, I was deeply impacted by the passing of two people I knew well - Om Malik and S. Somasegar. One… ## [Model capabilities and four minute mile](http://sriramk.com/model-capabilities-and-four-minute-mile) _2026-03-26 · Sriram Krishnan_ I’ve been discussing with some frontier lab researcher friends as to why frontier model capabilities are always so clustered together as opposed to any one model having an unassailable edge. The best metaphor for this in my mind is the “four minute mile”: no one broke it till Bannister in 1954 and then very quickly five more runners did it in the next two years. In the model world, this translates… ## [Daniel Ellsberg, Kissinger and knowledge](http://sriramk.com/daniel-ellsberg-kissinger-and-knowledge) _2026-03-11 · Sriram Krishnan_ I have told this story about once a week for about a decade. This is from Daniel Ellsberg’s book “Secrets” recounting a conversation he had with Henry Kissinger and applicable to anyone who feels they are inside an ecosystem. I find this highly applicable to Silicon Valley companies. There are underlying lessons here on humility and the downsides of trying to make complex systems legible. “Henry,… ## [On Brandon Sanderson](http://sriramk.com/brandon-sanderson) _2025-12-27 · Sriram Krishnan_ Every Christmas break for several years now, I’ve developed a ritual: getting lost in a world of Brandon Sanderson content. Without fail, each time I come away struck by how amazing a person Brandon seems to be. Brandon is best known for his vast collection of Cosmere novels and numerous standalone titles. While fantasy isn’t my typical genre—I usually prefer sci-fi or thrillers—I discovered his…