Corey Knowles

So a team of former Google DeepMind researchers just raised $2 billion, you heard that right, to build America's answer to DeepSeek.

So today we're going to talk about the future of open source AI and why it might determine who controls the next generation of technology.

Welcome, humans, to the latest episode of The Neuron Podcast.

I'm Corey Knowles, editor of The Neuron, and as always, I'm joined by our trusty writer, Grant Harvey.

How are you today, Grant?

Well, today we have a special guest.

We're joined by Yanis Antonoglou, co-founder at Reflection AI.

Yanis helped create AlphaGo at DeepMind, the AI that famously beat the world champion in the Game of Go back in 2016.

But now he's building what they're calling Frontier Open Intelligence, powerful AI models that anyone can download and use for free.

Yanis, welcome to The Neuron.

It's great to have you.

Excellent.

I guess my first question would be, so as someone who built AlphaGo, you know how powerful this technology can be.

Why make it freely available?

What's the upside for our listeners who maybe don't understand much about open source?

I love that.

I love the attitude with it.

And I think you're spot on.

Like the truth is, some of those teams aren't that big when you look at some of those.

And it's not even about size as long as the tech is there.