It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is on the line.

The Pragmatic Arbitrage: Why US Developers are Quietly Swapping Proprietary APIs for Chinese...

"While the contest between open and proprietary AI is often presented as a winner-takes-all format war, the most likely outcome is a combination of the two."

Open-weight models are worth having. The risks are real, but they are challenges to be worked out, not reasons to close the door