U.S. Pushes Back on China’s AI Lead with Open-Source Models

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Reflection AI’s rise is being framed as a geopolitical counterweight to China’s DeepSeek and Qwen models. Co-founder Laskin warned: “If we don’t act, the global standard of intelligence will be built elsewhere — not in America.”

The startup’s plan: release model weights publicly, but monetize through enterprise and sovereign AI deals with companies and governments.

White House AI & Crypto Czar David Sacks called the news a win for U.S. open-source AI, while Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue said the challenge now is to share models and datasets at scale to compete with global rivals.

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The open-source approach might be the smartest counter to China’s AI dominance. Collaboration beats closed competition.

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AI innovation thrives in transparency. The U.S. backing open-source models could reshape the global AI power balance.