Ben Horowitz

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

And so this is kind of a way that their ecosystem can grow by building on the open source.

And hopefully...

By the way, a lot of our industry has grown.

A lot of our application companies have used open source to kind of bootstrap themselves or get going or that kind of thing, and often Chinese open source, which is why, you know, it's really important to the U.S.

ecosystem that we have applications, that we have embodied AI, that we have robots and all these things that we have access to that technology because the kind of other model is a monopoly model where there's one company that owns all the applications and

All the robots and all of everything.

Yeah.

And look, I'm not saying I'm not even mad at them for doing that necessarily.

It's their like that's their business approach.

But like the consequences of it, if they're able to ban their competitors is not good.

Yeah, that's certainly their strategy, you know, and we'll see how it goes.

But I think that,

Kind of the best hedge against that is for like many, many companies being able to do AI, which is why the open models are powerful in that context.

Well, I think that, you know, with BYD in particular, there are a lot of subsidies from the Chinese government that enable them to achieve this amazing pricing.

And a lot of it is a kind of a – well, so kind of getting into manufacturing.

And, you know, the U.S.

is – so we, as a country, kind of –

invented so much of manufacturing and then kind of forgot what we knew.

Uh, so like, if you go back to, we won world war II based on our superior manufacturing capability.

Um, and then like over the next, whatever, a hundred years, we forgot to hold that.

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