Ex-Google employee launches open-sourced AI protocol to challenge tech giants

An ex-Google employee who is concerned that tech giants – including his former employer – are trying to “monopolize” artificial intelligence in order to consolidate their economic power has launched a new open-sourced AI protocol, which he says will allow anyone with the right skills to build their own AI-powered tools.

Jacob Steeves, who once worked on Google’s Brain team as a machine learning engineer, is co-founder and CEO of the Opentensor Foundation, an organization committed to developing AI technologies that are open and accessible to the public. Now, the group has launched Bittensor, a new decentralized and open-sourced AI protocol that he says allows the opportunity for developers to give Big Tech a run for