open source AI

“You're going to invest in a company at a five hundred million dollar valuation and six weeks later, it's going to be worth zero because someone open source the exact same thing that you can now do for a hundred K.”

“They're spreading a negative open source message, and I think it's precisely because they know it's their biggest threat, and I think what Meta's done with Llama II.”

“You know who the big winner is going to be in all of this? Chamath is going to be open source. Like, cause people are just not going to want a model that has all this baked in weird bias, right? They're going to want something that's open source.”

“I think we'll have both. It seems like the balance is that there's reasons to have both, but the importance of having open source as an option forces all of the closed source vendors to be honest, right? Like if they start censoring the models, they start You …”

“If you were to do something like ban open source in the United States, you'll put the United States on an island. The rest of the world is not going to follow suit. The rest of the world wants to use open models because of the advantages they offer.”

“And I think the future is open source for all these countries.”

“These proposals to ban open source that are coming from Anthropic. They don't solve the distillation problem.”

“It might end up being a situation like Apple and Android, where Android got a lot of market share, but Apple's where all the monetization was.”

“I do think that as this debate evolves, most conservatives, most libertarians are going to see the threat to civil liberties, and I think they're going to come out in favor of open.”

“Open source AI is critical for everyone to benefit from this technology and keep it from being centralized and controlled by a handful of companies and individuals and a small set of governing officials.”