I don't see how governments and companies around the world will now not switch to open weight models in the medium term.
Summary
The author argues that governments and companies will increasingly switch to open-weight AI models to avoid US government control over access, noting that open models are only slightly behind closed ones and move at a pace more suited to real-world bureaucracy.
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