Ed Elson

Open AI is only now.

I mean, they had the nonprofit issues, but the reality is this company is supposedly going to go public at a trillion dollar valuation.

That's crazy.

So how did you balance?

It seems as though the startup world is more interested in staying private as long as possible for, or at least that's what the data would tell us, versus going public.

So how did you balance?

How do you think about going public?

What are the pros, what are the cons, and why now-ish?

And I think that's the path that we're on.

You are a Canadian company.

You're based in Canada.

How do you think about AI as a sort of international geopolitical race?

We've got some big AI companies in America, some big AI companies in China.

I guess Mistral is another one that's in France.

And there's us in Canada and that's it.

Right.

Tell us more about what that means for society.

Is that the thing that changes the trajectory of geopolitics?

For example, you made the comparisons to other technologies.

I think some people would also make the comparison to the nuclear arms race, not to say that AI is like a nuke, but to say that it was the belief of nations that this is what will tilt the balance of power across the world.