Open-Weight Race
Closed US safety gardens lobotomized their own models. China turned open weights into industrial policy, and the compute-moat story died on a cheap API receipt.
Open weights are not a charity drop. Closed US gardens lobotomized for brand safety while Chinese labs treated release as industrial policy. Hugging Face picking the uncensored stack and API distillation killing the compute-moat story are the same chapter. The race is who ships usable weights into every stack first.
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OpenAI national-security panic as closed-garden lobbyOpenAI is using the national security bogeyman to lobby for regulatory capture because they can no longer out-innovate a million developers working for free....
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API heist collapses the compute moat storyChina does not need your GPUs if it can distill your frontier model through the API you left wide open.- Open-weight insurgency as industrial policy