>[I]nterpreting this law in such a way would further solidify the dominance of proprietary AI over open or academic research. This goes to the heart of the deb

>[I]nterpreting this law in such a way would further solidify the dominance of proprietary AI over open or academic research. This goes to the heart of the debate here. Obviously forking an open-source model of Chinese origin is not “sending dollars and gigs of data” to China. Hawley is a non-stupid person so he almost certainly gets this. The issue is that for a few US companies with >>$100B of market cap/valuation whose boards happen to be extremely plugged into Washington’s money machine, their strategic enemy isn’t China; it’s open-source models.