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Who Controls AI Acceleration? Vitalik Buterin and Guillaume Verdon Debate

2026-04-09 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·1h 39m ·by Andreessen Horowitz
Who Controls AI Acceleration? Vitalik Buterin and Guillaume …
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Eddy Lazzarin speaks with Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum, and Guillaume Verdon, founder and CEO of Extropic, about whether AI progress can or should be steered, the risks of concentrated power, and what open source and decentralization mean for who benefits from increasingly powerful systems.