AI will follow Linux: centralized first, open-source and user-owned eventually
Greg Osuri, Marko Stokic, Michael Heinrich & Luki Song on Can User-Owned AI Compete with Big Tech? (Nebular)
“There’s this famous article from Google that leaked that said Google has no moat in models, because models are getting open source… Just like how Linux took over the internet — now 96% of web servers, the top 1 million websites, are run on open source Linux — similarly we’re going to see that for AI as well. Initially it’s going to be centralized companies that have an edge, because closed source tends to go fast whereas open source tends to go far… but eventually it’s going to be open source and user-owned future.” — 00:03:41
Context: His model-layer argument: every OpenAI release gets replicated in months, soon weeks, so “code is no longer a valuable moat.”