open source
7 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jan 24, 2024 by Joelle Pineau · across every show →
Everything said about open source, oldest first
Jan 24, 2024 bullish
Pineau: Halting open-source AI now prevents developing vital model safety practices
“My worry about closing the doors down now is that the models are only getting better. And so if we don't release them now, we really miss an opportunity to develop the muscle we need to make these models safer. And I don't think today's model are the ones that…”
Mar 19, 2025 bullish
Jul 30, 2025 neutral
Amodei: Open-source AI lacks traditional software's inspectability and additive collaboration
“I don't think open source works the same way in, in AI that it has worked in other areas. Primarily because with open source, you can see the, you know, you can see the source code of the model. Here, we can't see inside the model. You know, it's often called …”
Sep 18, 2025 negative
Levie: Non-tech enterprises building custom open-source AI is a recipe for disaster
“Open source is insanely valuable, but not in the sense where a law firm should go off and build their own AI project using an open source model. Like, That, that is just a recipe for disaster if, you know, we think that, that every single company on the planet…”
Jan 16, 2026 bullish
Mensch: The open-to-closed AI model gap shrank to three months in 2025
“Well, if you look at the trends in 20, 24 I'd say there might have been like a six month gap. If you look at the trend in 20, 25, I think the gap is more around three months. So I guess it's up to anyone else, anyone to guess what the gap is going to be next y…”
Apr 13, 2026 positive
Jul 15, 2026 bearish
Schmidhuber: Proprietary AI Labs Have No Moat Against Open Source
“None of the companies have has a mode, you know, because whenever there's a new benchmark breaking record or something, benchmark, record breaking language model that does this or this or whatever. A few months later, there's the same thing in open source, you…”