# Open-source AGI has to happen

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-02-26
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** Everything Bagel: Open Source AI, Security, and Decentralization with Greg Osuri, Founder at Akash (The Index Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:44:46 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJaABZMi9c&t=2686s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2025-02-26-open-source-agi-has-to-happen-ld3u/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Open-source AGI has to happen," Everything Bagel: Open Source AI, Security, and Decentralization with Greg Osuri, Founder at Akash (The Index Podcast), 26 Feb 2025, 00:44:46. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJaABZMi9c&t=2686s

## Quote — verbatim

> It's something that we absolutely need... it has to happen, because historically speaking, any sufficiently important technology that reached mass adoption is open source — Linux, worldwide web, you name it... Transformers, open source, right?

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Host asks if getting entrepreneurs to build open-source AGI on crypto rails for humanity is crazy; Greg says it is a necessity, citing DeepSeek unseating closed state-of-the-art models.