There are a bunch of them they just don't get the attention because China has flooded the social media channels and is exceedingly good at drowning out the disc

There are a bunch of them they just don't get the attention because China has flooded the social media channels and is exceedingly good at drowning out the discourse with their benchmaxxed models. AllenAI and IBM are two companies that release open weight models every couple of months. There are others if you look. OpenAI releases ML models on the regular (not LLMs). The American open weight and open source AI/ML landscape is very healthy.