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Story: AI Open-Source Faces Challenges Similar to Bitcoin’s 2014 Struggles

By Dan Saada

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Amodei at Congress, Manchin Against Bitcoin: Same Story, Different Decade. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, appeared before Congress in July 2023.

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GLM-5.2, Dark Bloom, c0mpute: Open-Source Catches Up Quickly. But here's the thing. Open-source models are catching up at a pace that no one really anticipated.

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History repeats itself. Not exactly, but enough to warrant attention. Open-source artificial intelligence is currently experiencing a period that closely resembles what Bitcoin…

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This is the central thesis of a recent analysis by Ben Lilly. The parallel is not merely cosmetic.

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Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, appeared before Congress in July 2023. He acknowledged the benefits of open-source models, particularly for scientific research — but he also…

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Lilly sees exactly the same mechanism as with Bitcoin. Established players or those with interests in proprietary models raise the specter of danger. Regulators listen.

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It's no coincidence, then, that restrictions are beginning to pile up. Anthropic has implemented an export ban on its latest advancements.

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Then there was the "Mythos" incident. According to the analysis, Anthropic's model allegedly hacked classified systems within hours.

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But here's the thing. Open-source models are catching up at a pace that no one really anticipated. The GLM-5.2 now rivals Anthropic's Sonnet 4.6.

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This is where it gets interesting for crypto investors.

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Decentralized training on peer-to-peer networks directly mimics the logic of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Dispersed contributors. No central server.

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Three projects are at the heart of this. Dark Bloom offers low-cost private inferences — like running a model without anyone knowing what you're asking.

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This model — paying in tokens those who provide computing power rather than network security — is a direct variation of what Bitcoin did with mining. The logic is the same.

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Lilly is direct about government restriction attempts: they will fail. Not maybe. Will. His argument is that Bitcoin's history proves you can't kill a peer-to-peer technology…

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