There is no "West" anymore, at least not in the sense it was used in the last 50–70 years. There is now Europe/Canada/Australia on the one side, and the USA as an adversary on the other, and that won't change in the foreseeable time.

What we need is frontier open weight models in the EU, Canada, and Australia.

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slashdev 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Give it two years more then it changes again.

	▲	9dev an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It won't. That's the point many people don't seem to get: The people who wanted everything that is happening now don't just go away. There is no guarantee they won't vote for a narcissistic grifter again, and thus any long-term decisions building on mutual trust and stability can't be made. How could you justify investing into a factory that relies on a 20 year ROI window when tariffs could be changing every day? Why would you want to use an AI model that could be restricted to US citizens or taken away entirely without notice? Big, slow wheels have turned everywhere around the world. They won't turn back so easily.