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2026 Open Intelligence Summit Keynote

Open Intelligence: Ownership Is the New Battleground for AI

The conversation around open source AI has moved on. It's no longer about whether it's cheaper — it's about who owns intelligence.

AI builders want control over the intelligence powering their products: the ability to shape it for their own users, and to keep their data their own instead of handing it to proprietary frontier labs that can store it and use it to train their next models. This instinct is already reshaping the stack — over 60% of enterprises have put open-weight models into production, and 40% of technical leaders now prefer models they can self-host for privacy and control.

But the movement is still young. The tools to build, serve, and run open intelligence are evolving fast, and until now, there's been no single venue bringing their builders together.

Join us as we convene the open technologies and AI builders driving this shift — sharing the latest ideas, strategies, and best practices, and setting the course for what comes next.

A movement is forming around Open Intelligence: the belief that the intelligence powering our products and companies should be more open, portable, and controllable.

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