
interconnects.ai
September 22, 2026
14 min read
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Summary
I was recently invited to brief a group of Congressional members and staff on the state of open-weight models in the lens of U.S.-China competition. I’m sharing my prepared remarks as a state of the union on open models that is accessible to a broader audience. Recap: What is an open source v. open-weight vs. closed model? Open language models are AI models where their weights are publicly availab...