The people have a right to make and use whatever models they want, protected by the constitution. At a minimum, the models are described in research papers that are unquestionably protected speech. Skilled devs turn those into programs, also protected speech.
> but they do have the power to constrain commerce
I don't see how.
Maybe you're somehow legally allowed to distribute and download the weights, but most of us can't run GLM 5.2 at home.
A DeepSeek instance running 24/7 in a cloud provider will beat doing that with Claude which could bankrupt you with 100x more costs, even though it might find more.
And DeepSeek may find enough to keep your engineering team saturated and busy fixing things.
And.. now I feel the need to look again. Darn, there goes my afternoon