# Big AI companies are lobbying to ban open-source AI

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-11-25
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri \| Trump's impact on crypto x AI, why DePIN is inevitable, and Akash Network revenue ATH's (Proof of Coverage Media)
- **Watch at:** 00:16:38 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp_LL6tPDFU&t=998s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2024-11-25-big-ai-companies-are-lobbying-to-ban-open-source-a-wc5s/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Big AI companies are lobbying to ban open-source AI," Greg Osuri \| Trump's impact on crypto x AI, why DePIN is inevitable, and Akash Network revenue ATH's (Proof of Coverage Media), 25 Nov 2024, 00:16:38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp_LL6tPDFU&t=998s

## Quote — verbatim

> Big companies like OpenAI and Microsoft and Google of the world are going and lobbying heavily and proposing that we ban open source AI because it's in their best interest... they're going out with the message saying that if you open source AI, China is going to steal our AI... scare tactics, classic — to make sure that they are the only ones... they're playing this dirty game.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On the danger of regulatory arbitrage in US AI policy; he counters by educating the House trade committee, which he says already knew Akash and DePIN.