The United States must invest in and build high-quality, genuinely open-weight models to maintain its research and innovation leadership in the face of international competition.

“The ADAM Project, American Truly Open Models, is a US-based initiative to build and host high-quality, genuinely open-weight AI models and supporting infrastructure explicitly aimed at competing with and catching up to China's rapidly advancing open-source AI ecosystem.”

Open source is essential to prevent a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a few companies and to ensure a diverse information diet.

“I see the danger of this concentration of power to to proprietary AI systems as a much bigger danger than everything else what works against this is people who think that for reasons of security we should keep AI systems under lock and key”

Open-sourcing foundational biotechnological tools is essential to accelerate humanity's progress and overcome limitations imposed by patent landscapes.

“I think all the applications of gene editing should be patentable and protectable, but the core tools are so powerful and important that I think it's very difficult and hard to see how we are accelerating humanity's progress by keeping these things at bay.”

Open source models provide an essential check on the power of big tech companies that otherwise dominate technology categories.

“I'm a big fan of open source software because it's a it's a check on the power of big tech in a way.”

Open source AI models are essential for enterprises because they provide control, prevent vendor lock-in, and allow for the secure integration of proprietary data.

“if you assume that the entire economy is going to run on AI systems uh well enterprises will just want to make sure that nobody can turn off their systems. So the same way if you have a factory you connect it to to the grid you want to make sure that nobody's going to turn off the grid”