open source

“Open source is probably the single most important new method that we as a working culture have invented, period.”

“I thought that every company should be able to take advantage of a lot of the technology that's out there. It's being released into open source, but that's still really hard to assemble.”

“Open source is the future of humanity and it's important that we create more of it.”

“So the biggest underestimated thing in all of open source is branding, like actually building a proper brand for your company and thinking about, Hey, how, how do we want people to look at us?”

“Putting too much in free early on is dangerous, because you can't really take it back. And ah, that, I think that's where open source slightly differs from SaaS, SAS, because in SaaS SAS, you can just take it back. And in open source, as soon as you've put it …”

“So what you get quite quickly with these models is that you have web skill problems and small company income.”

“Without open science, without open source, without Google sharing their attention is all you need paper, sharing their birth paper the latent diffusion paper. Maybe we would be 3040, 50 years away from where we are today.”

“So I think that's why, you know, open source projects succeed, particularly when they concern basic infrastructure.”

“I predicted that we'll have a GBD four equivalent model before the end of the year. That's open source. Of course, GBD four keeps getting better and better. So my prediction was for the version we had like a few months ago,”

“Brand is important because trust is important in that domain and open source brings trust in terms that Provide some trusted brand.”

“Like we still intend to be a leader in the open source part and to have some unique assets that we can license. And to have some unique platform that developers can use.”

“Open always wins. Always.”

“I do think that you're going to see a lot of specialized LLMs. And I think that a lot of them will come from open source back to the earlier point.”

“I do think it's quite likely that we're gonna see less open source.”

“Historically, open source has only been about 20% of the total market value. I would say it's much higher than that for AI.”

“I think that right now open source is most dangerous because China is better at it than we are, and as a result of that.”

“Open source is going to be very important for us to actually have a free market around AI, because if we're going to end up in an oligopoly of AI companies, then the, you know, there's actually an economic theory of how they'll naturally collude on price and p…”

“So in the world of bifurcation and horses or courses, I think open source is a good thing because it allows you to play the cost curve, right? You don't need the smartest model to the smartest thing. So open source is good.”

“I firmly believe we need these middle level models from the closed source providers for the business to work, okay? We can't, not, not everyone can afford to run every workflow on Opus, right? And Haiku and Mini are too small, and this is where open source is …”

“Open source is a bit of a fake because China's paying for all the trading, okay? It's not open source like a generation ago.”

“The open router, you know, all the tokens with L, you know, with open source is a little misleading, because all the tokens can be in one place, but all the dollars can be in the other place.”

“But I also know that already you see with open source that you can do the same amount of same work for a 10th of the cost, right?”

“I think right now the open source drive is coming from the cost point of view.”

“That's something that's happening now. So I think we are at a real inflection point with open source.”

“I believe that we're going to have at least one massive, you know, multi-hundred billion, if not trillion dollar American company focused on American first open source.”

“And I think in part, this is what's going to drive the open source opportunity is that, yeah, you know what? We don't want that stuff. Uploaded into the cloud. We want it, you know, behind the firewall.”

“Open source is good for compute salespeople. If you're selling GPUs, you want everyone else's margin to be lower, so yours can be higher.”