The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China

The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China

Depending on foreign-made open models is both a supply chain risk and an innovation problem, experts say.

The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China

Since 2022, America has had a solid lead in artificial intelligence thanks to advanced models from high-flying companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI. A growing number of experts, however, worry that the US is starting to fall behind when it comes to minting open-weight AI models that can be downloaded, adapted, and run locally.Open models from Chinese companies like Kimi, Z.ai, Alibaba, and DeepSeek are now rapidly gaining p…