The Power of Open Source: Building Giants in the Open

Abstract

Explore how open-source AI powers production today: candid lessons from European founders (n8n, Black Forest Labs), a pragmatic tour of the open infra stack (Snowflake, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Supabase/Postgres), and investor playbooks for OSS licensing and sustainable monetization—plus 2026 bets on agentic apps, fine-tuning, unified data platforms, world models, and robotics demos.