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What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21

2026-07-09 · 81 min · episode 21 · 44 entities

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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://substack.com/@calacanis
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://x.com/ml_angelopoulos
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://youtube.com/thisweekin
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups
  • → references partners.launch.co company
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://partners.launch.co/
  • → references harvey.ai website
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://harvey.ai/
  • → references elevenlabs.io website
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://elevenlabs.io/
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://arena.ai/leaderboard/agent
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://z.ai/
  • → references Reflection Ai website
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://reflection.ai/
  • → references arena.ai website
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://arena.ai/
  • → references Global Workspace person
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com/
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://hippocraticai.com/
  • → references qwen.ai website
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://qwen.ai/
  • → references Gemma website
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://ai.google.dev/gemma
  • → references Open Models Icml person
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-models-icml-2026
  • → references Trump Accounts Launch person
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://cnn.com/2026/07/06/business/trump-accounts-launch
  • → references brownhealth.org website
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://brownhealth.org/

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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://twistartups.substack.com/
  • mentioned @Calacanis website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://substack.com/@calacanis
  • references twistartups.substack.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://twistartups.substack.com/
  • references @Calacanis website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://substack.com/@calacanis
  • mentioned ThisWeekIn website
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://youtube.com/thisweekin
  • mentioned @Thisweekinstartups website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups
  • mentioned harvey.ai website
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://harvey.ai/
  • mentioned elevenlabs.io website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://elevenlabs.io/
  • mentioned Leaderboard website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://arena.ai/leaderboard/agent
  • mentioned z.ai website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://z.ai/
  • mentioned Reflection Ai website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://reflection.ai/
  • mentioned arena.ai website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://arena.ai/
  • mentioned ticker.thisweekinstartups.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com/
  • mentioned hippocraticai.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://hippocraticai.com/
  • mentioned qwen.ai website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://qwen.ai/
  • mentioned Gemma website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://ai.google.dev/gemma
  • mentioned brownhealth.org website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://brownhealth.org/
  • references ThisWeekIn website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://youtube.com/thisweekin
  • references @Thisweekinstartups website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups
  • references harvey.ai website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://harvey.ai/
  • references elevenlabs.io website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://elevenlabs.io/
  • references Leaderboard website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://arena.ai/leaderboard/agent
  • references z.ai website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://z.ai/
  • references Reflection Ai website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://reflection.ai/
  • references arena.ai website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://arena.ai/
  • references ticker.thisweekinstartups.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com/
  • references hippocraticai.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://hippocraticai.com/
  • references qwen.ai website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://qwen.ai/
  • references Gemma website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://ai.google.dev/gemma
  • references brownhealth.org website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://brownhealth.org/

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  • mentioned Ml Angelopoulos person
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://x.com/ml_angelopoulos
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://x.com/ml_angelopoulos
  • mentioned Jason Calacanis person
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    Feed author/publisher: Jason Calacanis
  • hosted by Jason Calacanis person
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  • mentioned Global Workspace person
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
  • mentioned Open Models Icml person
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-models-icml-2026
  • mentioned Trump Accounts Launch person
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://cnn.com/2026/07/06/business/trump-accounts-launch
  • references Global Workspace person
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
  • references Open Models Icml person
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-models-icml-2026
  • references Trump Accounts Launch person
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://cnn.com/2026/07/06/business/trump-accounts-launch

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  • mentioned partners.launch.co company
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://partners.launch.co/
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    Link in episode "What happens if China pulls the plug on open-source AI? | Ep 21": https://partners.launch.co/
Episode description as stored
This Week In Startups is made possible by: PAYPAL Today’s show: China is weighing a ban on foreign access to its top AI models… the same low-cost open-weight systems on which half of the Valley’s startups are building. So we asked our two all-star panelists — Arena CEO/Co-Founder Anastasios Angelopoulos and Hippocratic AI CEO/Co-Founder Munjal Shah — what happens to US companies when their favorite cheap, powerful models vaporize overnight. PLUS why Hippocratic runs 31 models in parallel to ensure clinical-grade safety, the latency-vs-intelligence tradeoff no one is optimizing for, and why a company’s benchmarks might become their most valuable IP. Guests: Anastasios Angelopoulos on X: https://x.com/ml_angelopoulos Arena AI: https://arena.ai/ Agent Arena: https://arena.ai/leaderboard/agent Munjal Shah on X: https://x.com/munjalshah Hippocratic AI: https://hippocraticai.com/ Relevant Links: Reuters: “Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access…”: https://www.reuters.com/world/beijing-is-looking-curbing-overseas-access-chinas-top-ai-models-sources-say-2026-07-07/ Z.ai : https://z.ai/ Alibaba’s Qwen: https://qwen.ai/ Google’s Gemma: https://ai.google.dev/gemma Reflection AI: https://reflection.ai/ Nvidia: “How Open Models are Driving Research”: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-models-icml-2026/ DoorDash: “How we learned to trust our AI code reviewer”: https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/how-we-learned-to-trust-our-ai-code-reviewer-at-doordash Harvey AI: https://www.harvey.ai/ ElevenLabs: https://elevenlabs.io/ Anthropic: “A global workspace in language models”: https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace CNN: “Trump rings opening bell to mark first day of trading for Trump Accounts”: https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/06/business/trump-accounts-launch Brown University Health: https://www.brownhealth.org/ Timestamps: 0:00 Will US companies lose access to Chinese models? 1:42 Open source makes running 31 models viable 5:01 How deep is the West's open source bench? 13:20 Jagged Intelligence and why post-training matters 25:22 Benchmarks as living quality checks 32:49 Why models still struggle with drug names 42:58 Fine-tuning TV, cough, and sob detection 46:08 What is Arena actually selling? 1:08:29 Nationalization vs. buying stakes in AI companies Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com Check out the TWIST500: https://www.twist500.com Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp Follow Lon: X: https://x.com/lons Follow Alex: X: https://x.com/alex LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis Check out all our partner offers: https://partners.launch.co/ Great TWIST interviews: Will Guidara, Eoghan McCabe , Steve Huffman , Brian Chesky , Bob Moesta, Aaron Levie , Sophia Amoruso , Reid Hoffman , Frank Slootman , Billy McFarland Check out Jason’s suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis Follow TWiST: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com