Greg Brockman (@gdb), Co-founder and President of OpenAI, on the role of open models for their business (~50:20 into the latest Latent Space Podcast): Another thing at a very practical level that we've thought about with open source models is that people building on our open source model are kind of building on our tech stack. If you are relying on us to help improve the model, that you're relying on us to get the next breakthrough, then that means that you actually have a dependency, in both a a way that's good for our business, but I think it's also good for the country. That you think about having an American tech stack from the models that people are running directly. But then how those are going to interface and interplay in the way that we just talked about that actually allows us to build a whole ecosystem where people are able to have, you know, control over the parts of it that are important to them, ultimately be built on these models that reflect American values, um and then be able to interplay with American, you know, hopefully chips underneath, and cloud models on the back end and execution environments and all of that fitting together, that I think is something that it adds a lot of value and I think it allows for American leadership to really also mean that uh we have leadership in our values in the world.