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Bill Gurley

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BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

But I think it's important because that lays the foundation, right? If that's a foundational belief among Chinese entrepreneurs and Chinese companies, then it's understandable that this new generation of entrepreneurs might also see the advantages of open source.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

But I think it's important because that lays the foundation, right? If that's a foundational belief among Chinese entrepreneurs and Chinese companies, then it's understandable that this new generation of entrepreneurs might also see the advantages of open source.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

But I think it's important because that lays the foundation, right? If that's a foundational belief among Chinese entrepreneurs and Chinese companies, then it's understandable that this new generation of entrepreneurs might also see the advantages of open source.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

You're saying Washington may intervene to take action because there are people perhaps lobbying against or other concerns that Washington may have about open source Chinese models being used by American.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

You're saying Washington may intervene to take action because there are people perhaps lobbying against or other concerns that Washington may have about open source Chinese models being used by American.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

You're saying Washington may intervene to take action because there are people perhaps lobbying against or other concerns that Washington may have about open source Chinese models being used by American.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

Well, listen, we've talked here, and Sam has been dropping the breadcrumbs on Twitter that they wanted to launch an open source model. They've been GPU constrained. They've been bandwidth constrained. But he got the announcement out this week, which I was thrilled with. where he said, you know, we're excited to release a powerful new open weight language model with reasoning in the coming months.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

Well, listen, we've talked here, and Sam has been dropping the breadcrumbs on Twitter that they wanted to launch an open source model. They've been GPU constrained. They've been bandwidth constrained. But he got the announcement out this week, which I was thrilled with. where he said, you know, we're excited to release a powerful new open weight language model with reasoning in the coming months.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

Well, listen, we've talked here, and Sam has been dropping the breadcrumbs on Twitter that they wanted to launch an open source model. They've been GPU constrained. They've been bandwidth constrained. But he got the announcement out this week, which I was thrilled with. where he said, you know, we're excited to release a powerful new open weight language model with reasoning in the coming months.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

And we want to talk to devs. So he's inviting all these developers to participate and give feedback. He said, we want to make it a very, very good model. We're planning to release an open weight language model, one of our first since GPT-2. And he says, we've been thinking about this for a long time.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

And we want to talk to devs. So he's inviting all these developers to participate and give feedback. He said, we want to make it a very, very good model. We're planning to release an open weight language model, one of our first since GPT-2. And he says, we've been thinking about this for a long time.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

And we want to talk to devs. So he's inviting all these developers to participate and give feedback. He said, we want to make it a very, very good model. We're planning to release an open weight language model, one of our first since GPT-2. And he says, we've been thinking about this for a long time.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

And the interesting thing is somebody in the replies I saw, somebody said, are you going to make people buy licenses if they get a lot of users like Meta is doing with Lama? And he kind of takes a jab at Meta. And he says, no, we're not going to.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

And the interesting thing is somebody in the replies I saw, somebody said, are you going to make people buy licenses if they get a lot of users like Meta is doing with Lama? And he kind of takes a jab at Meta. And he says, no, we're not going to.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

And the interesting thing is somebody in the replies I saw, somebody said, are you going to make people buy licenses if they get a lot of users like Meta is doing with Lama? And he kind of takes a jab at Meta. And he says, no, we're not going to.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

Yes, he said no. He says no, which indicates maybe we're going to out open Lama. So that's on the one hand, you know, kind of open AI.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

Yes, he said no. He says no, which indicates maybe we're going to out open Lama. So that's on the one hand, you know, kind of open AI.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

Yes, he said no. He says no, which indicates maybe we're going to out open Lama. So that's on the one hand, you know, kind of open AI.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

Yeah, no, which I think is notable. Because remember, at the end of this month, we have Llamacon, which is the developer event for LLAMA. It's a big deal for Meta. The launch of LLAMA 4 has been rumored for a long time. And in fact, I think there are just a lot of people who are surprised they haven't released it. But it seems to everybody they're going to have to release it ahead of LLAMACON.

BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI Fundraise, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

Yeah, no, which I think is notable. Because remember, at the end of this month, we have Llamacon, which is the developer event for LLAMA. It's a big deal for Meta. The launch of LLAMA 4 has been rumored for a long time. And in fact, I think there are just a lot of people who are surprised they haven't released it. But it seems to everybody they're going to have to release it ahead of LLAMACON.