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Open by Design: Open-source Infrastructure, AI and Community :: Crystal City, VA

A Crystal City, VA panel discussion on open-source infrastructure in the AI era, covering licensing models, open-weights definitions, and community governance, followed by networking drinks.

Wed, Aug 19, 10:00 PMAWS Skills Center (Crystal City) · Arlington · VA
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Why it matters

Licensing and governance decisions for open-weight models directly shape who can self-host, fine-tune, or route to cheaper open models instead of paying per-token for closed APIs.

The tokenmaxxing angle

How 'open weights' gets defined and licensed determines whether builders can legally self-host models to cut inference cost, making this panel's licensing debate directly relevant to routing economics.

From the organizers

Hosted by AI Innovators Network NoVA at the AWS Skills Center in Arlington; panelists Sree Mothukuri, Ian Evans, and Salim Khouri of Kariosos.org, with after-drinks at Tacombi.