the piece focuses on closed frontier models but skips that Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek and Owen run reliably 6 to 9 months behind. For most countries and most use cases, that's what people actually run, and it's not gated by US policy. The "frontier haves vs have-nots" divide is try for the top 5% of capabilities. The other 95% of the economy will run on open weights regardless of what Mythos rollout policy looks like.