EventPolicyAugust 12, 2026

Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng make the case for staying open

At last week's Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, the three AI pioneers defended open models, with Andrew Ng warning: "I don't want there to be gatekeepers." They disagreed on tactics — Hinton drew a key distinction between open-source software and open-weight models.

Featured · Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Andrew Ng

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