Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen warns that the US needs to lead open-source AI to avoid ceding control to China in the global AI race.
China has favored open-source models, while US tech giants have taken a more proprietary approach to AI development.
The debate over open- and closed-source AI is intensifying amid US-China tech rivalry and concerns over technological sovereignty.
Andreessen believes that open-source AI could become the global standard, shaping values embedded in AI models that will 'intermediate' key institutions like education, law, and medicine.