Can Open Source Keep AI Power From Concentrating?
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- Published
- September 7, 2026
- Duration
- 8:30
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- Last updated
- Sep 13, 2026
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Summary
MTS host Sophia Dew visits the Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco to ask researchers and founders across the AI stack a central question: can open source prevent AI power from concentrating in the hands of a few companies?Lukasz Kaiser, co-author of Attention Is All You Need, argues that today’s concentration may be a feature of the current technologi…
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MTS host Sophia Dew visits the Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco to ask researchers and founders across the AI stack a central question: can open source prevent AI power from concentrating in the hands of a few companies?Lukasz Kaiser, co-author of Attention Is All You Need, argues that today’s concentration may be a feature of the current technological paradigm rather than a permanent feature of AI. Transformers reward enormous amounts of data and compute, but future breakthroughs could ma
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- ai