The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence projects so far have been very open. They are open about the trained models, the inference code, the training data sets, and the training code. A research group from any country can pick up where AI2 left off if they want to try a different approach or extension. I want to live in a world where there are many models near the top of leader boards, from many different research groups and countries, and I think that AI2 helps enable that.

The stated "US dominance" goal just pays lip service to what appeals to the funders, kind of like how supercomputing projects traditionally claim that they contribute to curing disease or producing clean energy. (Even if it's something far removed from concrete applications, like high fidelity numerical simulations of aqueous solutions.)