Ep 865: Open Source AI 101: Why Local Models, Cheap APIs, and AI Agents Change Everything (Start Here Series Vol 24)

SPEAKER_00: A few weeks ago, the United States government said the quiet part out loud when it comes to open source models, at least from China. That's because in April the White House sent out an official memo accusing China of using distillation to illegally copy American AI models to create cheaper domestic knockoffs.

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1. 01SPEAKER_00: A few weeks ago, the United States government said the quiet part out loud when it comes to open source models, at least from China
2. 02That's because in April the White House sent out an official memo accusing China of using distillation to illegally copy American AI models to create cheaper domestic knockoffs
3. 03However, the recent distillation trend has completely reshaped one important landscape of enterprise AI: the decision between using open source models versus proprietary closed mod