Open weights' rise may end as US and China restrict cyber-capable AI models
GunmetalZen · reddit · 2026-10-26
A Reddit essay argues the era of ever-better open weights may be ending as the US and China restrict cyber-capable models, leaving those capabilities to operators under government and big-AI oversight. The author warns ordinary people and small businesses will fall further behind in digital defense—no security team can keep up with a frontier model attacker—and questions whether the community can still train models near the frontier.
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