If we ban open weights models (read: Chinese models), we are truly fucked as a country. That is a dead end for our tech sector.

We cannot glue ourselves to the backs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. We need to be anti-fragile and support a robust spectrum of AI inference being developed from all angles.

This would permanently wed us to a handful of vendors that will soak American businesses and innovators dry while their own products fail to reach the peak of what an open weights inclusive environment could lead to.

US labs have been releasing increasingly capable open weights models lately. If open weights models are a viable business, US companies will provide them.

The Democrats haven’t taken office yet and all the people who could have leaked this information are Republicans currently so maybe think again?

> all the people who could have leaked this information are Republicans

Source?

For 2 years they haven't done anything, do you really think it took 2 years for NSA/FBI/CIA to find out that NVIDIA is selling chips to China and that that woman slept with Jensen and published on WeChat 2 years ago?

It doesn't matter who leaked what eveybody knew, the only think that matters is timing.

You don't think it's because of his extramarital affair with Alice Huang—a Chinese businesswoman identified by U.S. intelligence officials as a Chinese intelligence asset—as well as a newly reported relationship with Nvidia executive Kimberly Powell? It's all democrats-doing? This sounds a bit red-tin-foil-hat-ish.