It is only exempting US based open weight models. This is, to my uninformed opinion, a ban on Chinese open weight models?
This would seem like the most likely given lining up of Trump anti globalism and the heavy lobbying by Anthropic and OpenAI to stop competition.
Which other source(s)?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/white-house-s-ai-gui...
Btw, if you want to 'verify' any of this, seems we can't? The axios article in OPs link says this will not be made public.
> only makers of closed, proprietary U.S. models that demonstrate state-of-the-art capabilities in cybersecurity and hacking based on performance benchmarks would have to voluntarily submit those models to the government for testing before they are released
(Separate from who is affected, even the language around “having to” “voluntarily” submit seems contradictory - if you “have to” submit then it isn’t ‘voluntary’.)