Hunter Bown (@goodhunt) is the creator of CodeWhale (github.com/codewhale-hq/Code…) & a law student. Hunter spent seven years as a high school band director, got an MBA after being nerd-sniped by GPT-3, went to law school, and built an open-source terminal agent that took him to China. We talk about antitrust and AT&T, who should control frontier AI, public defense, Hegelion, open source as strategy, and the patent system. 00:00 Intro 02:03 Welcome, Hunter 02:24 From band director to law school 06:33 First contact with GPT 10:17 Bell Labs, the transistor and the AT&T breakup 14:04 Who should control frontier AI? 16:07 “I wish I could give them Claude” 21:52 Hegelion: thesis, antithesis, synthesis 24:45 Bad actors vs. surveillance states 27:09 The student who built a gun detector 32:28 Building CodeWhale 35:14 The tweet that went viral in China 40:03 China: bots, culture shock, one-person companies 47:28 Open source as strategy 50:38 Patents and the disclosure system 58:14 Going to China as an American 1:01:32 Nemotron and synthetic data 1:03:50 Wrapping up: contribute to CodeWhale

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