The Open Source AI Summit has officially wrapped! We'll publish talks over the next week or so, covering the full breadth of the open source/weight AI movement, from engineering to policy and philosophy. In the meantime, here is @moneyball's fireside chat with @DavidSacks

I would like the record to show that, at best, I am the WANNABE polymath. Grateful to Spiral for another year of support working on open money and open intelligence!

i expect to cross paths with @_austin_f a lot.. ..doing product-ey, builder-ey work at the intersection of open money & open intelligence

Open Source AI: It's Time to Hit the Gas Last month, we brought the community together at the Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco's Presidio. Here are our top 5 actionable takeaways. 🧵

friction-maxxing = memory-maxxing = time-maxxing = life-maxxing

@jesseposner and I really excited to finally be sharing our hardware product that we have been developing for more than a year @voravault Thank you so much to @PresidioBitcoin for their support!

Thank you JS for the kind words and donation to programminglightning.com! All donations are paid back out to learners who complete quizzes and coding exercises. If you're interested in learning how Bitcoin's Lightning Network works, check out the courses! They're all free 😎

Yea, DGX Spark and Mac minis are cool, but have you tried running inference on Lonesome Dove?

Many such cases at the Open Source AI Summit

NVIDIA's VP of Applied Deep Learning Research, @ctnzr, joins @matthew_d_white to discuss NVIDIA’s approach to open models, the strategy behind Nemotron, and the future of AI infrastructure ↓ Timestamps 0:00 - Why NVIDIA invests in open models 06:09 - Why small models need frontier models 09:32 - Hugging Face acquisition and NVIDIA’s open ecosystem strategy 13:53 - Why Nemotron goes beyond model weights 17:01 - Building a shared foundation for open models 25:35 - Why AI models need different licenses 30:23 - Why openness makes AI safer 36:32 - The limits of open model development

Before this talk, I incorrectly thought it was as simple as "code is speech" (I blame twitter influencers) A critical part of the Bernstein ruling was that the code was legible by a human, which model weights are not. If you want to protect open models, you need to watch this!

Decided to pick up my camera, go on a hike, and take some pictures today. I'll try to take a picture a day for the next year. Some will be epic, others mundane. Such is life.

Day three is kicking off with a talk from @huggingface on building your own AI. “A little known, small, niche company in the space” 😅

It’s a beautiful day for a beautiful day!

There are still a few spots left to RSVP for this philosophy event with @millerman! If you're in the Bay area and interested in open source and political philosophy, you should absolutely attend this!

Pulling up to the neighborhood data center to run some inference

Me and @_austin_f have been pouring our hearts and souls into this. Open source AI will win!

I'll be in San Francisco September 9–12, speaking at the Open Source AI Summit and leading an evening on Carl Schmitt on the 9th. The evening of the 11th is open, and I have room for one or two conversations with technology and philosophy people who want to talk or do business together (+coffee/cigar). DM me.

The Open Source AI Summit is next week! Here’s another look at the agenda, with more talks and speakers. There’s still some tickets available, apply via the link below.