Feldman: Chinese open-source AI techniques force closed labs to innovate
Andrew Feldman · The Story Behind Cerebras’ $63 Billion IPO with Founder and CEO Andrew Feldman · May 21, 2026 · at 27:05
Andrew Feldman is the CEO of AI chip maker Cerebras. He discusses how global open-source model development impacts leading closed-source frontier AI labs.
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“The open source community has sort of kept the interest alive and kept the flame going. And I think that, that the and pushed the closed source guys. I think the sort of techniques that we saw by some of the Chinese Like, whoa, we gotta stay ahead of that, right? We can't rest on our laurels. We can't depend on the fact that we have bigger training clusters and more data.”
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