open-source: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/open-source/ Everyone on the record about open-source: 5 verbatim quotes from 4 people, January 2025 to July 2025, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:08 +0000 Bill Gurley: Gurley says Mistral should be distilling Chinese models right now if they want to compete. https://minutesof.com/q/a4421198-8184-45f7-9a12-37a84f641769/ https://minutesof.com/q/a4421198-8184-45f7-9a12-37a84f641769/ “I do expect to see that. And if I'm the Mistral team, if you're not distilling on these Chinese models, I don't know what you're doing right now.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:11:15 +0000 open-source Bill Gurley: Gurley argues seven to eight deep-pocketed Chinese open-source models can distill each other to a https://minutesof.com/q/5e755aba-f687-4536-ad57-34a4a9dc2d51/ https://minutesof.com/q/5e755aba-f687-4536-ad57-34a4a9dc2d51/ “I think there may be seven or eight dig pocketed players with open models in China, they all learn from each other extremely fast.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:11:15 +0000 open-source Brad Gerstner: Gerstner notes Alibaba's Qwen model has passed 400 million downloads under Apache 2.0 license. https://minutesof.com/q/61b701ab-5440-4bd6-b877-eb17aff4e766/ https://minutesof.com/q/61b701ab-5440-4bd6-b877-eb17aff4e766/ “Of course, that's released like these other models under the Apache 2.0 open source license, so very open, as Bill's talked about.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:11:15 +0000 open-source Dylan Patel: Patel predicts China will stop open sourcing AI models once ahead and closed source will ultimate https://minutesof.com/q/4728732c-0771-4e99-ad96-f8a818be3df3/ https://minutesof.com/q/4728732c-0771-4e99-ad96-f8a818be3df3/ “China's open sourcing stuff only because they're behind the moment they're ahead, they will stop open sourcing stuff. And at the end of the day, closed source will win. Unfortunately, closed source will win.” — Dylan Patel, Matthew Berman Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:27:19 +0000 open-source David Sacks: Sacks argues open-sourcing makes strategic sense for DeepSeek as a Chinese company trying to catc https://minutesof.com/q/9fa7ca82-6d26-4877-b86a-cb19e2e279d5/ https://minutesof.com/q/9fa7ca82-6d26-4877-b86a-cb19e2e279d5/ “And so if you're if you're behind and you're trying to catch up, then open source is a strategy that actually really makes sense for you.” — David Sacks, All-In Podcast Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:52:00 +0000 open-source