OpenAI is the modern AOL
DeepSeek and the Dominance of Open Source AI | Akash & Prime Intellect: Mined with CoinFund Ep. 19 (CoinFund)
“If you look at similar patterns, OpenAI is the modern AOL of the world. In fact I tweeted about it two years ago on this very exact fact: that any sufficiently successful technology has to be open source.” — 00:07:05
Context: Reacting to DeepSeek R1 crossing the frontier; he adds that chip export controls to China let the free market innovate its way to cheaper training — “a classic textbook definition of a free market fundamentally working.”