IMO US vs Chinese data vacuuming is a false choice. One of the main benefits of these open weights models is that you can get the privacy and cost savings by hosting your own model in cloud infrastructure.

Open weights models are only 4.5 months behind closed weight ones.

The fact that US considers propping its flagship technology by blacklisting competitors demonstrates how small the US competitive advantage really is.

The USA has an entire economic system to financialize your personal data and obfuscate your privacy. China can just sniff on their citizens API Calls, and use that to distill models.