Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

	Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI(politico.com)
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	HN Discussion: ↑Arguments for banning Chinese models are logically weak and unenforceable in practice ↑The 'distillation as IP theft' claim is hypocritical given US labs' own copyright violations ↑Anthropic and OpenAI are pushing regulatory capture and should be opposed ↓A blanket ban wasn't actually seriously proposed, article overstates the threat •Users should mirror and adopt Chinese open models proactively