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The West's open-source AI race kicks into high gear

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Western companies and governments are accelerating efforts to compete in open-source artificial intelligence, according to Semafor's analysis. The push comes as open-weight models gain ground globally and policymakers weigh how to keep pace with rivals while maintaining an edge over Chinese AI developers. The debate centers on whether open approaches can match closed, proprietary systems from leading US labs.

Why now: Growing strategic and commercial competition over open-source AI models in the West

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