SILICON VALLEY SPLITS OVER CLOSING THE BORDERS TO CHINESE AI

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Companies like Anthropic and OpenAI claim some AI models are too dangerous to be developed in the open and must be tightly controlled for safety. The rest of the industry says that open source AI models must remain open for people to further develop technologies and build new businesses. China's rapid progress in open source AI models is escalating the fight. US officials are still debating whether to approach regulating Chinese open source models as a national security issue or issue a kind of blanket ban.