SITUATION EXPLAINED: What is at stake in the open source AI race? We asked @perrymetzger, chairman of Alliance for the Future. 'Open source …

SITUATION EXPLAINED: What is at stake in the open source AI race? We asked @perrymetzger, chairman of Alliance for the Future. "Open source models are a sort of cultural ambassador and civilizational ambassador." "If everyone ends up using Chinese open source models, it means that the answers that they get to their questions and the way that their software is and is not willing to behave ends up being dictated by the Chinese." "It would be better from my point of view if the US was putting out a steady stream of open source AI models that were getting as much traction." "It used to be that a number of these labs put out open source models regularly. Whisper, one of the early pioneering voice recognition models, came from OpenAI. Google still does open source with Gemma. But that's about it, it's like the only frontier lab that still does open source in America." Media

Source: Clem Delangue (X) | 2026-06-26