Can open source prevent AI power from concentrating?
MTS host
@sophiadew visits the Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco to ask researchers and founders working at different layers of AI.
Co-author of Attention Is All You Need,
@lukaszkaiser, argues power concentration is a property of the transformer, not a permanent feature of AI.
Former Linux Foundation Global CTO of AI,
@matthew_d_white unpacks why China leads on open weights and what the US needs to compete.
@VictorSuOrtiz shares what open weights unlock for creators building on
@MiniMax_AI's H3 video model.
Cofounder and CTO of
@FireworksAI_HQ,
@dzhulgakov breaks down how Fireworks AI allows companies to own their intelligence
And NVIDIA's
@JeanKossaifi argues that nearly every major breakthrough in modern AI already rests on an open foundation.
1:20 Lukasz on why AI power concentrated
4:12 One RTX 5090 > 8-GPU setup his team used for transformer research
8:02 Matt on why US and China have opposite incentives on open source
11:44 Scarcity forces China to innovate, abundance lets the US scale up
15:43 Why Poolside stopped pre-training
20:18 Victor on the H3 community shipped
21:49 Dima on renting intelligence vs training your own
27:01 How training on your own data gets better results from a smaller, cheaper model
30:40 Jean Kossaifi on tracing modern AI back to the Python ecosystem