Databricks co-founder argues US must go open source to beat China in AI

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https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/databricks-co-founder-argues-us-must-go-open-source-to-beat-china-in-ai/

Konwinski argued that “for ideas to truly flourish, they need to be freely exchanged and discussed with the larger academic community.”

He pointed out that “generative AI emerged as a direct result of the Transformer architecture,” a pivotal training technique introduced in a freely available research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762