American AI Is Too Closed, and It's Hurting It
benwerd · hn · 2026-07-20
American AI, the author argues, is becoming too locked down and proprietary to stay competitive.
The piece frames open vs. closed AI as a strategic question: if the U.S. ecosystem keeps concentrating power in a few closed models and platforms, it risks losing the broader innovation race to more open, faster-moving competitors.
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