Ben Horowitz

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The a16z Show · Ben Horowitz: The Fight Over Open Source AI · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think that open source is basically the best path kind of towards that goal.

Well, look, I think there's a huge push with a lot of money behind it, you know, particularly from Anthropic to ban open source.

I think that it is kind of nefarious from my point of view, but, you know, whatever their motivation is, they do have... So one of the things that happened with cryptography

is there are people who are very senior in the intelligence community who didn't understand the technological aspect of it, who pushed for banning cryptography because they wanted control.

And I think that it's a similar thing here where...

It just feels like more control if you can stop some kind of AI.

And, you know, but those are very powerful forces in the conversation right now.

And I think that there is certainly a kind of pretty strong community pushing for the banning of open source.

And so that's why this letter was so important, why it's so great that

You know, not just Jensen, but Elon, Satya, Sam all supported it.

And I just think it's very obviously the right answer for safety, the right answer for America.

And it would be a real shame if we, you know, kind of shot ourselves in the foot on this.

Yeah, I mean, as could, right, a Chinese national working for Anthropic or OpenAI or, you know, SpaceX, right?

Like, it's not like these Chinese nationals cannot be activated by the Chinese government.

Like, we've seen that.

So, like, if that's a threat, like, I think that's just a general threat, not specific to open source AI.

And nothing against Chinese nationals.

We love them.

They're great for our country and so forth.

But if you're worried about that,

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