Treasury Secretary Bessent: US Needs More Open-Source AI as a Strategic Weapon
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-25
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US needs more open-source AI models, warning that regulatory capture by large labs "will stop innovation." He also framed stronger US open models as a strategic weapon against China, whose models he said are heavily built by distilling capabilities from American models.
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