Open models keep AI continually available, rather than dependent on any one provider's decisions.
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Who asserts it
- OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US — 20VC Interview
alex-atallah-openrouter-20vc-interview-2026-08-10 - China, Open Source & AI Competitiveness | Andrew Ng
andrew-ng-open-source-ai-competitiveness-2026-07-29 - Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump)
jensen-huang-allin-summit-doomer-hoax-2026-09-14 - Jensen Huang: 'AI Doomers Have It Wrong' — Axios Interview Full Transcript
jensen-huang-axios-ai-doomers-2026-07-23 - Jensen Huang Bloomberg Interview: Korea AI Golden Age, SK Group $500B Partnership, Open Models
jensen-huang-bloomberg-korea-interview-2026-07-25 - Jensen Huang CES 2026 Keynote — Full Transcript
jensen-huang-ces-2026-keynote - Jensen Huang on Open-Source AI — CES 2026, GTC 2026, LangChain Interview
jensen-huang-open-source-ai-2026 - DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng Breaks His Silence
liang-wenfeng-transcript - Mark Zuckerberg: Open Source AI Is the Path Forward — Full Manifesto
mark-zuckerberg-open-source-ai-manifesto-2024 - Open Weights and American AI Leadership
open-letter-open-weights-american-ai-leadership-2026-07-24 - How We Scaled Kimi K2.5 — Yang Zhilin's GTC 2026 Keynote
yang-zhilin-gtc-2026-keynote - Yann LeCun on AGI, Open-Source, and AI Risk — TIME Interview Full Text
yann-lecun-time-interview-open-source-2024-02-13 - Zhang Peng: Zhipu AI IPO and the Road to AGI — Zhang Xiaojun Interview Full Transcript
zhang-peng-zhipu-ipo-interview-2026-01-07
They they had to make it available for people and uh it's their job to make the technology harden and safe and secure uh and whatever whatever uh whatever jailbreaks or whatever vulnerabilities there are in the software as soon as they find it they ought to fix it. That's the nature of software. And um uh look look what happened. Uh it was released. Um somehow it was uh uh jailbreed and uh it was able to do things that that u maybe they were trying to guard rail it for not to do. Um but everything was fine.
It's best for cyber security and so depending on irrespective of how many industries uh open models is foundational to the advance of science and the advancement of computer science today. Uh I really do hope that we keep it open. >> Simple question on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Should American companies be allowed to use Chinese AI models? Absolutely. Absolutely. I there's a there's a misconception that somehow uh there are back doors that is somehow connected to to China in some way. You download the models. You could uh you could fine-tune it. You can uh enhance it.
The United States now faces a similar choice with artificial intelligence. **Our AI leadership will be judged not by one frontier AI model, but by whether the United States builds a strong, open ecosystem that diffuses into every sector.** This is essential for creating opportunities for innovation and prosperity across the country. It requires expanding access to AI, encouraging competition, robust application layers, and giving Americans greater control over the technology they rely on.
Who denies it
- Regulation and Messaging — Dario Amodei's X Reply to Gavin Baker
dario-amodei-regulation-messaging-x-thread-2026-08-15
Overall my view is that AI is *structurally* a technology that tends to concentrate power, for reasons that have nothing to do with regulation (more to do with the extreme implications of the scaling laws). Open-weights do help some with this but are nowhere near a sufficient solution because they simply shift the concentration somewhat to those with the most compute and chips (which are roughly the frontier labs plus maybe hardware providers).
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