Venture capitalists Vinod Khosla and Marc Andreessen have slammed each other over tech billionaire Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman.
What Happened: Khosla, an early OpenAI investor, questioned Andreessen over his stance on open-sourcing critical technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), saying it is crucial to guard it for national security.
"We are in a tech economic war with China and AI that is a must win. This is exactly what patriotism is about, not slogans."
Khosla was responding to Andreessen's allegation that he is "lobbying to ban open source."
He went a step further and compared AI to The Manhattan Project – this was a crucial development project that was undertaken during World War II to be the first to produce nuclear weapons.
The U.S. led the project in collaboration with the U.K. It was successful and helped ensure a victory for the Allies.
Khosla ...