> Forcing the weights to be opened to the world accomplishes the opposite of all of that. The argument is incoherent. Or this author doesn’t understand the topic at all?

Or maybe you understand less than you think?

Frontier progress is limited by compute, and compute is bought with investor money. Investors fund labs at hundreds of billions because they expect exclusive ownership of the model weights.

If the weights are public the day a model ships, the valuations drop, the funding rounds shrink, and the next training run is smaller or later. Make sense?

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Aurornis 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Your whole argument seems to rest on the idea that the AI race is entirely contained within the United States, where we can regulate them.

And that no other country might just take the open weights and continue right on with the advancements in private?

	▲	jacobgold 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, it rests on the idea that almost all of the money, most of the people, and the GPUs are here. Any country would be able to take the open weights and keep going in private. But countries like China can already do that today, since the weights are almost certainly already in foreign hands due to espionage. What they can't do is fund the next frontier run at today's pace without selling into the US market, and selling into the US market can require opening the weights.