Lucas Atkins
Chief Technology Officer at Arcee AI discussing the company's transition to training its own large language models and the landscape for U.S.-based open-source models.
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Jan 27, 2026 • 3h 50min
Clawdbot Creator Peter Steinberger Joins, Meta's Premium Subscription Plans | Jamie Cuffe, Ben Lerer, Lucas Atkins, Bridgit Mendler, Jeff Miller, Aaron Frank
Peter Steinberger, Austrian open-source entrepreneur behind PSPDFKit and creator of MoltBot, on building viral local agent experiences. Jamie Cuffe, Pace CEO, on automating insurers' back-office with AI. Ben Lerer, Lerer Hippeau co-founder, on building and scaling niche media. Lucas Atkins, Arcee AI CTO, on training US-based open-source LLMs. Bridgit Mendler, Northwood Space CEO, on satellite ground infrastructure and a big Space Force contract. Jeff Miller, Anduril marketing VP, on merch, partnerships and AI drone racing. Aaron Frank, Lightspeed partner, on payments, stablecoins and agent-driven commerce.
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Jan 27, 2026 • 1h 12min
Arcee AI goes all-in on open models built in the U.S.
Lucas Atkins, CTO and pretraining/architecture lead at Arcee AI, talks about building Trinity Large and the six-month sprint to train a 400B total, 13B active MoE. He covers model scaling, Muon optimizer choices, stability and expert balancing, dataset and compute planning on B300 hardware, and deployment, licensing, and business tradeoffs for open U.S.-built models.
