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This Week in Startups · 2026-10-14 · 60 min · 10,914 words

The Ex-DeepMind Researcher Taking On China’s Open Source AI

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All right, everybody, next on the program here at This Week in Startups. I am super excited. To have one of the few leaders here in the United States for open source. uh models, which is something we desperately need, as you've heard over and over again here on This Week in Startups, This Week in AI, on the all in podcast. We Uh are very

much in the lead when it comes to frontier models. But frontier models have many shortcomings have many Achilles heels. Uh one of them is that you can be rug pulled at any time and the Frontier Marco take your model away from you. In other words, they're not reliable. Another is

The frontier models are viewed increasingly as competition. Number three, you are renting your intelligence, you don't own it, you don't have sovereignty over your knowledge, over your business. There are um number of important issues that founders have to make. When picking between open source And frontier.

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