The Open Source AI Summit explores an alternative ecosystem rooted in independence and decentralization, where individuals build, run, and own their intelligence.
For two days, we’ll explore the technical, economic, philosophical, and geopolitical dimensions of open-source AI. Topics will span open models and local inference to verifiable hardware, AI economics and safety, and the right to compute.
Speakers include:
- David Sacks, Founder & Partner, Craft Ventures
- Ravin Kumar, Staff Research Engineer, Google DeepMind
- Vincent Weisser, CEO & Co-Founder, Prime Intellect
- Jeff Boudier, VP of Product, Hugging Face
- Noah Smith, Senior Director of NLP Research, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Denny Lee, PM Director, Startups & Ecosystems, Databricks
- Ahmad M. Osman, Founder & CEO, Osmantic
- Tanya Verma, Co-Founder & CEO, Tinfoil
- Travis Oliphant, CEO & Co-Founder, OpenTeams
- Zain Hasan, Staff AI/ML Engineer, DX, Together AI
- Rory Donovan-Maiye, Sr. Research Scientist, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Greg Lukianoff, President & CEO, FIRE
- Niko McCarty, Founding Editor, Asimov Press
- Alex Komoroske, CEO & Co-Founder, Common Tools
- Steve Lee, Lead, Spiral
- Curtis Spencer, Partner & Co-Founder, Electric Capital
- Conner Brown, Executive Director, Bitcoin Policy Institute
- Jordan Mecom, Staff Security Engineer, Block
- Michael Millerman, Founder, Millerman School
- Jasper Hugo, Developer on Goose, Spiral
- Ken Egan, Director of Government Affairs, Bitcoin Policy Institute
- Jesse Posner, CEO, Vora
- Timothy Kassis, PhD, Co-Founder & CTO, KDense
- Ilan Strauss, Economist, AI Disclosures Project
- Mark Suman, Co-Founder & CEO, Maple
- Ramez Naam, Investor & Award-Winning Author
- Tess Posner, Founder & CEO, Resonance
- Nick George, Head of Hardware, Vora
- Lance Vick, Co-Founder & CTO, Caution
- Douwe Osinga, Developer on Goose, Spiral
- Justin Moon, AI Lead, Human Rights Foundation
- Rob Hamilton, Co-Founder & CEO, AnchorWatch
- Kyle Olney, Senior Advisor, Bitcoin Policy Institute
- Dustin Dannenhauer, Founder, Delegance AI
- Elias Rohrer, Developer, Spiral
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