Ownership in the Age of AI — David Stout & Abe Burns in Conversation

​Who owns the intelligence we’re building — and who ultimately benefits from it? In this fireside conversation, webAI Founder and CEO David Stout sits down with venture investor Abe Burns to examine how AI infrastructure is evolving beyond centralized control and what that means for founders, operators, and capital allocators alike.

​Drawing from Abe’s experience investing in category-defining technology companies and David’s thesis around sovereign intelligence, the two will explore how ownership, distribution, and infrastructure design will shape the next phase of AI — and why the most important changes may be structural, not just technological.

​David Stout — Founder & CEO, webAI

​David is Founder and CEO of webAI, challenging the cloud-first AI paradigm and advancing a vision of sovereign, distributed intelligence. He focuses on how infrastructure, ownership, and architecture will define the next era of AI.

​Abe Burns — Venture Investor

​Abe is a venture investor with experience across technology, media, and culture. A former Partner at Sound Ventures and A-Grade Investments, he brings a platform-level perspective on how capital and infrastructure shifts determine which technologies and paradigms win.