China's AI Heist

> These protective measures, though extensive, will not be enough. Washington must urgently encourage the development of competitive U.S. open-weight alternatives.

lol

> Google’s recent release of Gemma 4—a family of open-weight models built from the same research as Gemini—proves that American companies can indeed produce competitive open-weight models when sufficiently motivated.

lmao, even. Google is a bajillion dollar company with cash to burn. You're not going to convince OpenAI or Anthropic to cannibalize their entire market by competing with China's openness.

It's not even guaranteed to fix the "heist" being alleged.

> systems including OpenClaw have demonstrated that users around the world want models that run on their own device

Systems like OpenClaw rarely run on-prem. The article is bending over backwards to make a bizarre point.