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Ben Horowitz: The Fight Over Open Source AI

aired Jul 26, 2026 · 32.0m
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Summary

If you look at the history of the industry, the open source version of everything has been much safer. So the Internet and Linux were far safer than Windows, like by our lot.

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It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, think, know, including: So the Internet and Linux were far safer than Windows, like by our lot.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Theo Jaffe and Sofia Puccini are joined by Ben Horowitz to discuss the battle over open source AI, why he believes open models are essential to innovation and national security, an
  2. 02There's an open letter released by NVIDIA today called Open Weights in American AI Leadership, signed by many companies, including Andreessen Horowitz
  3. 03academia is completely out of the AI game if there no open source So that goes away I think secondly we just had a really interesting security incident with OpenAI hacking into Hug
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