[sanderjd]

Actually this would be pretty great, because it would incentivize US labs to pursue the open weights strategy for the same reasons China is currently.

I genuinely think that this is what the trends and incentives point toward: Competition to develop open weights models and to develop efficient inference hardware to run them.

This would be good! But government policy could very easily screw it up.

[alightsoul]

That's if American models fall behind Chinese ones. Why would Americans open source when they can create a Monopoly?

[sanderjd]

Yes that's the "this" I was referring to.

I guess a day later I don't really agree with my own comment that this would be "great", but it would be a silver lining of that happening.