Theo Jaffee
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Yeah.
Well, it's been super interesting.
Steven, thank you so much for coming on MTS.
It's been great having you on.
We are live with Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz, who needs no introduction.
So we'll just dive right into it.
Ben, welcome back to MTS.
So, so much has happened in the world of open source, open weights in the last couple of weeks.
It's gotten, you know, it's gotten real.
There's some drama going on.
There's an open letter released by NVIDIA today called Open Weights in American AI Leadership, signed by many companies, including Andreessen Horowitz.
So, can you tell us a little bit about the intent behind this letter and what you hope to achieve from it?
Yeah.
Well, another angle that many people talk about with respect to open source is China and national security, as opposed to like AI safety stuff.
And some people say, you know, it's a national security risk for so many American startups to be dependent on like infrastructure that comes from China, you know, in the event that, for example, China decided to cut everything off and stop releasing better open source models online.
to American companies or perhaps they could you know in an AI future make these open source models like sleeper agents basically or you can think of all kinds of things that they could do
We talked to Aaron Levy earlier about this and he was like, yeah,
You know, how can Anthropic like just take everyone's training data without paying them at all, but when other labs pay them, it's distillation, it needs to be banned?
So why do you think that so far over the last few years, Chinese labs have surpassed American labs in terms of open source performance?
Yeah.
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