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Public story · 2026-03-07 · source-backed
Nathan Lambert's deep dive on OLMo Hybrid makes a compelling case that the transformer-only era may be ending. The paper formally proves hybrid models solve problems (related to code evaluation) that neither transformers nor GDN can solve alone. Combined with Qwen 3.5 and Kimi Linear taking similar approaches, Lambert sees a "resurgence of truly open models" driving architecture innovation that closed labs can't match. Critical caveat: inference tooling is 3-6 months behind, so production deployment requires workarounds today. (Interconnects)
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