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Aaron Levie on Why Open AI Wins

aired Sep 05, 2026 · 31.0m
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Summary

Open-weight AI is often framed as a threat to frontier labs. Aaron Levy thinks that gets the economics backwards.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, kind, know, including: Aaron Levy thinks that gets the economics backwards.

Key takeaways
  1. 01The Box co-founder and CEO joins Theo Jaffe and Sofia Puccini on MTS to discuss why open models could make the AI ecosystem more competitive, the debate around distillation in Chin
  2. 02They also get into the latest frontier models, how AI is expanding rather than shrinking Box's engineering roadmap, and why model routing could become the default for enterprise AI
  3. 03Something we will be monitoring
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