# Incumbents fight to close AI because open-source AI threatens their existence

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-10-02
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** "Will demand for advanced AI chips (GPUs) be 1:1 for every person? We sit down with Greg Osuri to find out." (Block Fuel)
- **Watch at:** 00:15:01 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-demand-for-advanced-ai-chips-gpus-be-1-1-for-every/id1705468368?i=1000671509211
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2024-10-02-incumbents-fight-to-close-ai-because-open-source-a-tra3/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Incumbents fight to close AI because open-source AI threatens their existence," "Will demand for advanced AI chips (GPUs) be 1:1 for every person? We sit down with Greg Osuri to find out." (Block Fuel), 2 Oct 2024, 00:15:01. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-demand-for-advanced-ai-chips-gpus-be-1-1-for-every/id1705468368?i=1000671509211

## Quote — verbatim

> It's very obvious OpenAIs and Microsofts and Amazons of the world are fighting to keep AI closed, because open-source AI fundamentally threatens their existence. Because open-source AI is the biggest enemy of OpenAI, which has nothing to do with open-source AI... OpenAI is open only in its name.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Asked about regulation; he calls it "crony capitalism" ("chronic capitalism" in the transcript) and describes his Hill advocacy. He adds the "good guy with a gun" defense-of-open-AI analogy at 00:16:24.