Open-Source AI vs. Corporate Greed: Who Wins the Digital Cage Match?"

Welcome to the AI battle royale, where scrappy open-source rebels are throwing hands with corporate overlords hoarding intelligence like a dragon sitting on a gold mine. On one side, you’ve got DeepSeek, Meta’s LLaMA, and a ragtag army of AI anarchists dropping models like underground mixtapes. On the other, the walled-garden giants like OpenAI, ready to charge you $99.99 a month just to ask what year it is.

Max Bennett and Lisa Vega rip apart the hype, the power plays, and the brutal reality of this fight for AI’s future. Will AI belong to the people, or are we all doomed to be stuck in a paywalled, sanitized, corporate-controlled thought prison? No mercy, no fluff—just sharp analysis, savage laughs, and a full-throttle takedown of the industry’s biggest lies.

Note: This project explores the new creative potential unlocked by generative AI, showcasing how a single person, in just two hours, can curate (not create, but curate) a polished podcast series. I recognize the critiques around AI-generated content and the potential for digital clutter but invite you to take a listen on your next walk or drive and see what you think. Audio is AI-generated by Google's NotebookLM. Images by Grok-3 and Magic Studio.