Michael Terpin

And I'm also very bullish in terms of the future of the two coming together, decentralized AI.

Because AI agents are sort of a big area in the future, not just LLMs.

And, you know, if you've got an agent going out and executing on your behalf, do you want it to be owned by Microsoft?

Right.

So, I mean, OpenAI is 40% owned by Microsoft, you know.

Even the open source stuff that Lama is is developed by Meta.

I mean, you know, Google, obviously there.

I mean, the big the big LLMs are all either majority owned or at least significantly owned by, you know, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Meta and, you know, Elon Musk.

Yeah.

And so these are, you know.

very profitable centralized organizations that have a history of, uh, you know, doing things for the shareholders and not necessarily for, for the users.

And, you know, and if you're, you know, one answer is to like over-regulate stuff.

Another one is to decentralize it.

And obviously what Bitcoin did with the centralization, what the internet did with decentralization.

I mean, the internet, you know, really was sort of the original kind of decentralized, uh, you know, uh, organization.

And, uh, you know, in the early days, um,

the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I still have a T-shirt somewhere from the early days that said, the internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it.

And so the whole idea was that when the defense industry, it was a DARPA project originally in the 60s,

So that during a nuclear war, if you had a thousand nodes that needed to somehow connect with each other for national security and 900 were damaged because of warfare, nuclear or otherwise, you could still, because there was no central hub that most client server architectures and mainframe architectures rely upon, as long as you had like three or four nodes anywhere in the country, they could find each other.

Wow.