Beyond 'open-source AI': the case for permissionless compute and decentralized training
const_reborn · x · 2026-11-12
Responding to Pompliano's claim that open-source AI is essential to the freedom of billions, constreborn argues 'open-source AI' is a catch-all and what's actually needed is a concrete stack: permissionless compute, non-KYC inference, encrypted model storage, decentralized pretraining, and collaborative RL.
His core thesis: superintelligence must either be co-created, co-owned, and freely accessible, or it will become cancerous and asymbiotic with humanity — a representative decentralist take in the open-source AI community.
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