Databricks plains argue we need to open source to beat China in AI

Andy Konwinski is concerned that the US is losing dominance in Ai research to China, calling the shift an “existential” threat to democracy. Konwinski is the co-founder of Co-Foundricks and Co-founder of AI research and Venture Capital FirmSee rank-.

“If you talk to PhD students at Berkeley and Stanford in AI today, they will read that they were in AI companies in the past years in the park at Cerebral Valley AI this week.

In addition to investment through LAUEU, the Venture Fund He launched last year with NEA Veteran Pete Veteran Pete Veteran and Antimatter CEO Andrew KRIOUKOV, Konwinski also opened the Laude Institute, an acceleration that offers researchers.

Main Ai lab, including opening, Meta, and anthropic, continuously, but their innovation remains proprietary rather than open-source. In addition, these companies siphon off top academic talent with mature teaching-dollar salaries for what these experts can do.

Konwinski argues that for ideas to flourish, they must be freely exchanged and discussed with the larger academic community. He claims that generative AI emerged as a result of the transformer architecture, a pivotal training technique that was freely introduced research paper.

“It’s the first nations that create the ‘next level of architectural architecture,'” Konwinski said.

Konwinski argues that in China, the government supports and encourages AI innovation, whether it is from labs like Qwen deepseek or Alibaba, which allows others to build it, so, therefore, they will be the ones who will build it.

He believes that this is among the contrasts for the US, where, when he made it, “the spread of scientists who say scientists that we always have in the United States, it dries up.”

Konwinski argues that this trend is not only a risk to democracy but also a business threat to the US’s AI AI. “We are eating corn seeds; the fountain is drying up. Fast forward five years, the big lab is gone too,” he said. “We have to make sure that the United States remains number one and is open.”