Follow AI Builders — Not Influencers

okay i'm candidly still a little confused about benefits of mit vs apache 2.0 license...

Happy Birthday, America. Ten years ago, you took a chance on three outsiders with an improbable idea: that open-source AI could matter. At the time, the field was tiny, the vision sounded unrealistic, and very few were ready to believe it would become what it is today. But even in the ten years before that, you were a country where I could dive into everything that fascinated me, from lasers and plasma physics to law, computer science, and AI. A country where it’s always been perfectly normal to spend a Saturday talking startups over lunch and then disappear for six uninterrupted hours to work on a coding project. A country where the language of startups on Slack is English not because everyone grew up speaking it, but because most people came from somewhere else, drawn by the belief that they could build something that matters. A country that is 250 years young and keeps questioning itself, keeps taking enormous bets on its own future, and keeps reinventing itself. I’m grateful to be living through America’s first quarter millennium. Happy birthday, America 🇺🇸