Aaron Levie

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The a16z Show · Aaron Levie on Why Open AI Wins · 5 Sep 2026 podcast

Mm-hmm.

Is it an open source play or not yet?

I think not yet.

I think astrology

Yeah.

Is the letter maybe like a it's like a Rorschach test of like, what do you see in this letter?

Well, what we saw when we read it was hopefully it's like the default stance of the folks that signed it, but basically kind of almost twofold sort of main points.

One, the reason why open weights AI is super important is because it actually drives AI progress.

We get more innovation, we get more options, you can build on top of these models, you can train them for your own use cases.

So like open weights.

In general, I would argue is actually a very important part of the AI ecosystem.

So much so that I think it's actually kind of misframed as zero sum with closed weights.

It actually just adds to the the number of use cases that people then do with AI.

So that's kind of probably part one.

And then part two, I think embedded in there was a little bit of a call to arms on the US actually needs to be probably even more invested in open weights models.

And we probably want even more companies kind of showing up to the table with this innovation.

And so it didn't seem like it was directly about we must support all of the things that are happening in China as much as US needs to continue to support open weights.

We probably need even more innovation here.

I know by the way, like distillation is actually not always bad and there's lots of use cases around it.

So let's maybe like calm down on some of the FUD on that.

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