The Compute Cartel's Shield: Why Chipmakers and Startups Fight for Open-Weight AI

On Capitol Hill, the official narrative surrounding artificial intelligence has taken a dramatic, nationalistic turn. Silicon Valley lobbyists and European tech firms are walking the halls of Congress with a counterintuitive warning: if you lock down AI code to keep it out of rival hands, you will lose the technological arms race. The argument sounds noble, positioning open-weight models as the ultimate weapon for Western software supremacy.

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