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Sriram Krishnan on Open Source AI's Biggest Week Yet

aired Jul 24, 2026 · 23.0m
Signal
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Essential
confidence 0.99
Orig48.8
Actn91.0
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Dpth100.0
Clty81.3
Summary

If you kind of bring it back to very business-first principles, if you're providing a product of value, capitalism will find a way to make the supply chain work for you. So if you have an open-made model that is providing value, that means that every part of the stack underneath, whether it is a neocloud, the chip provider, somebody who provides gas turbines or fire suppression is going to orient itself to provide va

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of think, know, models, including: So if you have an open-made model that is providing value, that means that every part of the stack underneath, whether it is a neocloud, the chip provider, somebody who provides ga.

Key takeaways
  1. 01So if you have an open-made model that is providing value, that means that every part of the stack underneath, whether it is a neocloud, the chip provider, somebody who provides ga
  2. 02In this episode, Theo Jaffe and Sophia Puccini are joined by former White House AI policy advisor, Sriram Krishnan, to unpack what the latest wave of open models means for Frontier
  3. 03We just discussed, we had GrokBuild was open source and then we had Thinking Machines and then KimiK3 and then Quen 3.8
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