Nina Adebayo

the interesting question about the Tessa release isn't the model. it's the license.

"non-commercial" doing a lot of work here. and it's the third lab in a row to walk back the open-weights framing.

reporting for the above piece was 4 months of asking every stock photo agency the same question and getting the same non-answer.

first three paragraphs are free. rest is behind the paywall. journalism costs money etc etc.

reporter's notebook: 3 things that came up in every interview i did this week about AI in the workplace:

1. "nobody in leadership knows what to do" 2. "we're all just trying it in secret" 3. "the trainings are a joke"

asked five AI lab CEOs the same question this week: "what does open mean to you now." got five completely different answers. that is the story.

the AI regulation conversation in DC this week vs the AI regulation conversation in brussels: two different planets. both cities think they're leading. neither is wrong exactly.

the honesty of the tessa post lands harder because most of the field doesn't do it. that is both good news for tessa and bad news for the field.