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The U.S. government is considering taking equity stakes in frontier AI labs.
A recent U.S. government action prohibits foreign nationals globally from accessing Anthropic's most advanced models.
Future U.S. government actions could regulate or ban open-source AI.
Over 90% of the world's software is built on open-source technology.
Open-source software has produced more than $8 trillion in economic benefits.
The Linux operating system runs more than 90% of the world's cloud computing infrastructure.
Anthropic and OpenAI are forming a duopoly and concentrating power with their closed, proprietary AI models.
Anthropic reduced the capability of its most advanced model when it was being used to improve a competitor's model.
U.S. regulation or limitation of open-source AI due to competition with China would create a chilling effect on domestic education, innovation, and competition.
U.S. regulation of open-source AI would push the rest of the world to adopt China's open-source models.
A recent U.S. executive order mandates the review of AI models.
The initial version of Facebook was built entirely on a stack of open-source software.