Jason Calacanis

We need to be able to run the AI ourselves on our own hardware if we so choose.

So we're not beholden to a single company that might be in bed with a deep state.

Yeah.

Look, Jake, I agree with you about the importance of open source because open source means software freedom.

You can run the program yourself on your own hardware.

You don't have to

share you don't have to give up your data sovereignty you don't have to give up your privacy to again to some monopolist who's going to be you know in bed with the government or the deep state right so that's the thing we're all afraid of and if that's the only ai that's available is from the you know monopoly or duopoly

than your choices are to live off the grid and not participate in the modern economy or give up control, right?

To some social credit system.

So I think the open source is really important.

And by the way, that was Elon's instinct in creating open AI.

He was afraid that Google was gonna monopolize AI.

So he's like, let's create,

open ai so that it's not dominated by a single company but that that is i think the right answer here is i know people want to i think their instinct to the idea of powerful ai is to clamp down and just control it but actually you have to have multiple players that's the only way you're going to be protected is is to have multiple players

Is there an issue right now with we don't have a good harness for open source?

I mean, the way that like Claude is a...

Harness for Opus 4.7.

Yeah.

Well, just to wrap up, let me just connect a couple of ideas.

So one is that in terms of the red capture agenda that you're seeing in Washington, I think where it's all leading to is an effort to ban open source models or open weight models.