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Ben Horowitz predicts that Jan Stoica at Berkeley will successfully establish a funded open source AI model project for academic use.

On a16z Podcast · unverified speaker · a16z Podcast · Jul 26, 2026

but I think it can happen. And then there are some real efforts in academia. My friend, Jan Stoica from Berkeley is kind of working hard to put together a project where we can fund kind of, open source model and that everybody in academia can use and build on

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