This assertion is not supported by the text of Biden’s Executive Order. There are a number of requirements placed on various government agencies to come up with safety evaluation frameworks, to make initial evaluations related to open weight models, and to provide recommendations back to the President within 270 days. But there’s nothing whatsoever that I can find that outlaws open weight models. There’s also little reason to think that “outlaw them” would be amongst the recommendations ultimately provided to the executive.

(I can imagine recommendations that benefit incumbents by, for instance, placing such high burden on government adoption of open weight models that OpenAI is a much more attractive purchase. But that’s not the same as what you’re talking about.)

I dunno, the EO seems pretty easy to read. Am I missing something in the text?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...