Launching Wooden Boy Industries: CitizenAI, Open Models, and the Midwest AI Opportunity

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONJason is launching Wooden Boy Industries, his own AI consulting practice focused on AI consulting, education, workforce development, and solution architecture. He is staying on as an advisor to CitizenAI, where he spent part of this year helping the platform get its footing with Silicon Valley engineers he still credits for a lot of his growth. Jason and Weekly Blitz co-host Julie Koehrer break down a loaded AI news week: New York became the first state to sign a statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open source model with roughly 2.8 trillion parameters, and former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab shipped its first open weight model. Jason argues the real story is on-prem. Companies are realizing the smartest labs might be training on their business data every time they run a workflow through a closed model, and Figma's Claude Design problem is the cautionary tale he keeps coming back to. Also covered: Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, the ongoing Musk and Altman back and forth, and a meme about orbital data centers that had to happen.

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RESOURCES MENTIONEDKimi K3 (Moonshot AI open source model, ~2.8T parameters, July 2026)Inkling (Thinking Machines Lab's first open weight model, released July 16, 2026)New York data center moratorium, Executive Order No. 62, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, July 14, 2026Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, filed July 10, 2026Claude Cowork and Claude Design (Anthropic)ChatGPT Codex (OpenAI)NVIDIA chip export policy to ChinaGreater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce