Who Controls AI? DeepSeek, Stargate & The Fight for Open AI

🎙️ Christopher David is the Founder & CEO of OpenAgents, an Austin-based applied AI lab building the agentic economy on open protocols.

A Bitcoin OG (Class of '11) 🟠 and Nostr contributor 🌐, he envisions AI as a decentralized, user-driven technology rather than a tool for corporate control.

With 150+ public builds, he's leading the development of Onyx, a mobile app integrating a Bitcoin Lightning wallet ⚡, Nostr client 💬, and decentralized AI marketplace 🤖 pioneering AI agents that transact in bitcoin micropayments.

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0:00 Intro
1:42 Learning about bitcoin from a libertarian lens
3:41 There needs to be a boundary between Bitcoin and “knockoffs”
5:20 Recommendation for Saifedean Ammous’s work
6:27 The value of open-source and interoperability
8:50 Better to ask why or why not?
9:50 OpenAgents: An applied AI lab
12:14 What the “Agentic Economy” will look like
15:12 Will the future be decentralized? Self-hosted?
16:55 “Coding Agents” for software development
18:00 Onyx, OpenAgents’ consumer-facing mobile app
23:48 What’s the best AI for most people?
25:29 OpenAgents vs. competitors for power users
26:52 DeepSeek: Overhyped or not?
32:07 USA vs. China OR open- vs. closed-source?
26:12 How does DeepSeek affect Stargate?
37:27 Isn’t DeepSeek censored?
39:22 AI agents transacting with bitcoin
45:45 Final thoughts on OpenAgents
46:33 Outro