Goose: Block’s Open Source AI Initiative Explained

Show Notes

0:00 What is Goose? 2:54 Presidio Bitcoin as an open source AI hub 5:23 Product roadmap ideas for Goose 6:05 Local inference and privacy-first Goose setups Goose is Block’s open source, chat-focused interface for working with LLMs, an alternative to commercial tools like Cursor and Windsurf. In this clip, Steve Lee (@moneyball) breaks down: What Goose is and how it works Block’s launch of an independent Spiral-style engineering team New grants to support open source Goose contributors Roadmap priorities: prompt libraries, streaming, client-side privacy Why Presidio Bitcoin is becoming a natural hub for open AI innovation If you're building at the intersection of open source, AI, and Bitcoin check out Presidio Bitcoin: https://www.presidiobitcoin.org/ Learn more about Goose: https://block.github.io/goose/ 🎧 From the PBJ podcast recorded at 📍Presidio Bitcoin 🔗 Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEJ-cEzcDdk 🐦 Follow us: https://x.com/PresidioBitcoin 🌐 Learn more: https://presidiobitcoin.com