The Fight Over Which AI Models You Can Use

Today on the AI Daily Brief, why everyone is debating AI policy and the battle for the future of open source AI. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Blitsy, Section, and Airtable. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. And if you wanna learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. Today's episode is one of those ones where the headlines are all kind of connected to the main episode, so we're just doing it as one big episode. We will be back presumably with our normal format between headlines and main tomorrow. But for now, let's talk the battle around OpenAI. Before we get into today's show, let me pitch you on why you should pay attention. Now if you're listening, maybe you don't need to be pitched. But my observation over the past few years of doing this show is that there is a big chunk of this audience who is primarily focused on how AI matters for you. Specifically, this part of the audience cares about new models and changes in harnesses in the way that we access those models. They are primarily interested in how AI is going to change their work and their careers and what they do. They're interested in how AI opens up new opportunities for them. And this is, of course, why a lot of this show is biased towards the highly actionable. It's also why, almost inevitably, there is a little dip in engagement around shows that are more on the policy side or on the macro big picture geopolitics side. Today's show is entirely about that, But my very strong argument is that what we are discussing today is an area of policy and geopolitics that could have dramatic implications for what models you have access to, how you access them, the cost at which you access them, the ways that you design systems for work, the tools that are available to you to design those systems. The stakes, in other words, are extremely high, not just on some random theoretical level, but in terms of the AI that you actually access. What's more, this particular area is a policy discussion which blends into democratic politics in The US in a major way, and so I believe and hope is worthy of your engagement. So what we're talking about today is, of course, the increasingly loud political questions around open source. And specifically, but not exclusively, we're talking about Chinese open rate models and whether they have a future in The US. Now the genesis for this, of course, is the release of Kimmy k three, the model that was the subject of discussion in our Friday episode. Now at this point, you might …