Jun Song: backing open-source AI isn't about China, it's about knowledge belonging to humanity
kuchaev · x · 2026-11-13
Researcher Jun Song pushed back on a common misreading: supporting open-source AI has nothing to do with taking China's side.
His argument is a single point: the collective knowledge humanity has built so far should belong to humanity. The open-source AI debate is fundamentally about who owns knowledge, not geopolitics.
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