State of the blog, mid-2026

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Financial viability of the newsletter as a full-time venture, given its low cash reserves.
The rising cost of AI services required for research and content creation.
Maintaining high community quality against a flood of low-effort, AI-generated content.

Cultivating a defensible, 'AGI-proof' expertise by building a loyal, niche community.
Leveraging the newsletter's influence to shape the open-source AI ecosystem.
Translating the highly-engaged online community into valuable in-person events.
Growing the newsletter into a financially sustainable platform that can support full-time independent work in the future.

Nathan Lambert is an advisor for Arcee AI and Mercor.

Arcee AI is a company focused on building open-weight models.

Mercor is focused on transparent evaluations, open post-training, and maintaining neutrality with respect to leading AI labs.

The audience for the Interconnects newsletter includes representatives from all top AI companies and labs.

The Interconnects newsletter has approximately 900 paid subscribers.

The AI service Fable has changed its business model to be API-only, which increases its cost for some users.

For niche, technical content, revenue is a more reliable measure of influence than vanity metrics such as views and likes.

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