open-source software

“They were doing a sort of typical top-down sales approach and the type of go to market dynamics usually reserved for the Siebels and you know, oracles of the world, and you couldn't do that then, you can't do it now.”

“There's probably no better signal than when you compete with a free open source platform and your product is exploding, even at an early day, because it's gotta be magical.”

“I think you can build an open source company predicated on open source software in a distributor way and distribute away because you have thousands of contributors or hundreds of contributors all around the globe to open source software and you're managing and…”

“So blockchains are to centralize services as open source software was to centralize operating systems, right? Like this is, that's what we're doing here. We're trying to open the services layer of the internet.”

“Unlike actual software open source, just because you release your model doesn't mean somebody can replicate it. Like to replicate it, you'd have to like recreate the data pipeline and the training pipeline.”

“The reality is when you're getting open weights, you're not getting, it's not the same thing because all you get is the fixed weights that allow you to run the model. What you don't know is the black box inside those weights and how they work.”