# OpenAI will be the new AOL

- **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:** 00:46:11 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJaABZMi9c&t=2771s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2025-02-26-openai-will-be-the-new-aol-o4rg/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "OpenAI will be the new AOL," Everything Bagel: Open Source AI, Security, and Decentralization with Greg Osuri, Founder at Akash (The Index Podcast), 26 Feb 2025, 00:46:11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJaABZMi9c&t=2771s

## Quote — verbatim

> Similarly, like OpenAI, I think, will be the new AOL of the world. Yes, they were the first to get to market with ChatGPT... that kicked off an entire industry, but I think the true intelligence through AI will be open source.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering whether open-source AGI ("open intelligence") is achievable; he compares closed AI pioneers to AOL shipping CDs before the open internet won.