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OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?

Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.

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Chinese open-weight models are cheap. Washington is deciding what that costs.
Enterprises evaluating Chinese open-weight models this month face a question that has nothing to do with benchmarks: whether using one will still be straightforward in a year. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 arrived on July 16 as the largest open-weight model yet released, and within days it had reopened a po

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