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The leading closed labs, already a duopoly in terms of AI model revenue, want the government to eliminate their open-source competition.
An assertion about other companies’ intentions, published without evidence and naming no company, so there is no specific claim to test. It is recorded as a position taken inside the US policy process during the July argument over whether to restrict American access to Chinese open-weight models. It would become checkable if any of the firms it describes filed a submission asking for restrictions on open-weight releases; none has been produced.