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The Moat or the Commons
American AI was financed on the bet that frontier models would be the next great monopoly business. That assumption is now breaking as open weight models are commoditizing the capability that the American capital paid-for moat was supposed to protect. The gap between the open frontier and the closed frontier is closing. The question will be whether countries choose to subsidize the private moat or the open commons.
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