# OpenAI is the modern AOL

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-01-31
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** DeepSeek and the Dominance of Open Source AI \| Akash & Prime Intellect: Mined with CoinFund Ep. 19 (CoinFund)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:05 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb-XhauNLNE&t=425s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2025-01-31-openai-is-the-modern-aol-eczi/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "OpenAI is the modern AOL," DeepSeek and the Dominance of Open Source AI \| Akash & Prime Intellect: Mined with CoinFund Ep. 19 (CoinFund), 31 Jan 2025, 00:07:05. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb-XhauNLNE&t=425s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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."