Emad Mostaque says open-weights debates are really US-vs-China debates
emollick · x · 2026-07-24
Emad Mostaque argues that the open-weights debate is distorted because frontier closed models are being built in the US, while frontier open models are being built in China.
- He says that means discussions about openness are really discussions about many other things too.
- The post is a framing argument about the politics and incentives behind model openness, not a product announcement.
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