Open Source Won't Play a Role in ASI Due to Trillion-Dollar Compute Barriers
iruletheworldmo · x · 2026-08-10
The author argues that developing Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) will require trillions of dollars and unprecedented compute power, leading to a deeply competitive landscape with likely only a single winner.
Given these extreme resource barriers, expecting open source to play a meaningful role in ASI is unrealistic, as training the best models will always demand data centers the size of Texas. The author jokingly notes that while socialism might theoretically solve this resource concentration, the real world operates differently.
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