Continuing yesterday's thread (hey there, Boris Cherny — the creator of Claude Code). Today's news cycle is getting rocked by Mark Zuckerberg with his op-ed in the WSJ. Basically, he wrote a radical manifesto against OpenAI and Google, arguing: enough hiding the technology — superintelligence should be distributed to every person as their own personal tool.
Here's what Zuck actually wrote, the key points:
- **AI as a personal weapon.** Zuck is firmly against technology at this scale becoming a tool of control over us. AI should be everyone's personal assistant, amplifying *our* capabilities — not the market cap of a handful of monopolists.
- **Death to the "black box."** While competitors hide their algorithms behind closed doors under the banner of "safety," Meta is betting everything on full open source. Zuckerberg believes open code is the only thing that can save the world from an AI dictatorship.
- **Decentralizing power.** Closed algorithms concentrate power in the hands of investors. Open AI spreads that power across the whole world.
What does this mean for us?
Right now, the defining battle over the internet's future is playing out. On one side: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, trying to monopolize superintelligence. On the other: Zuckerberg, literally giving away the most powerful technology for free (Llama), blowing up their entire business model in the process.
You can read Zuckerberg's full column at WSJ.
So whose side are you on in this war? The techno-elite with their closed AI "for safety's sake," or Zuck's radical open source, risks and all?