David Sacks
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first heard Jul 2026
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And it's sort of a quirk, right?
It's the opposite of what you'd expect.
You'd expect the American system would promote open, and somehow the Chinese system would promote closed.
that has kind of, you know, ended up being a little backwards.
I think there's like good reasons for it.
It could just be, it could just be kind of a historical accident in the fact that the DeepSeek founder was like very committed to open source and kind of,
just kind of got things started that way.
Or it could be part of a deliberate strategy.
If you're trying and you're trying to catch up, open source is a really good way to do that because you get all the non-aligned developers to want to help your project, which they can't do with a closed project.
So it's a great strategy for catching up.
And then also, if you think that your business model as a company or as a country is, let's say, scale manufacturing of hardware,
then you would want the software part to be free or cheap because it's your compliment, right?
So you try to commoditize your compliment.
And I don't know whether it's by accident or part of design, that seems to be what the Chinese strategy has been.
I think that the right answer for the US in this is to encourage our own open source.
I mean, I think it'd be a great thing if we saw
more open source initiatives get going.
I guess there's one promising one called Reflection, which was founded by former engineers from Google DeepMind.
So I hope we see more open source innovation in the West.
But look, I think it's very important.
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