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Dax Raad

What Dax Raad thinks about open source

@dax-raad · 28 positions · 0 changes of mind

Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Co-hosts the How About Tomorrow? podcast with Adam Elmore.

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  1. Our readingIn US-China AI competition the closed labs are beside the point; the competitor that shifts things must be American, open source and able to serve inference at scale.

    Their wordsin this whole USA vs China thing OpenAI and Anthropic aren't relevant because they're positioned differently them building better models doesn't hurt china at all the competitor has to be - american - open source - enough compute to do inference at scale that can shift things

    ↗@thdxr on Xx.com

    AnthropicOpenAIChinaAmerica

    Interesting
  2. 3 months earlier

  3. Our readingIn every developer-tool category — databases, compilers, whatever — the open source option eventually becomes the default option.

    Their wordsevery single dev tool we use whether it's databases, compilers, whatever eventually the open source option becomes a default option, right?

    ↗Building OpenCode with Dax Raadyoutube.com 5th of 24 in this recording

    compilers

    Interesting