If open weight models are the future, U.S. AI companies are going to have a hard time

OpenAI, Anthropic, and other Western labs have spent billions training the model weights at the heart of their most advanced systems.

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Top executives at leading Western AI companies are increasingly warning about the safety and national security risks posed by Chinese open-weight frontier models. What they tend not to mention is that these models are improving rapidly and, because they are freely available, pose a serious threat to Western labs’ business models.

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