# Open source will beat centralized AI — like Linux did

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-01-02
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** "AI Sovereignty: Building the Path to Individual AI with Greg Osuri" (The Outpost Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:43:45 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-sovereignty-building-the-path-to-individual-ai/id1779395525?i=1000682416476
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2025-01-02-open-source-will-beat-centralized-ai-like-linux-di-76yh/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Open source will beat centralized AI — like Linux did," "AI Sovereignty: Building the Path to Individual AI with Greg Osuri" (The Outpost Podcast), 2 Jan 2025, 00:43:45. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-sovereignty-building-the-path-to-individual-ai/id1779395525?i=1000682416476

## Quote — verbatim

> You'll have a deep confidence in, like, open source AI that it doesn't matter what centralized AI is going to produce, we're going to beat them pretty, pretty aggressively, right? So, it's like what happened with Linux... Look at where it is right now, 97% of the internet runs Linux.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Argues closed labs' moats are thinner than believed since techniques get reverse-engineered into open source quickly ([00:43:04]).