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The concept is stupid and the rule as stated is stupid.

"Any AI model a company offers to the public has to be released as open weights."

OK great, that means no models released to the public, complete concentration of power.

if they do not release any model to the public: how would they make money then?

Their entire funding model depends on that they generate much revenue _soon_

> how would they make money then?

By acquiring companies and letting the now-internal employees use AI, easily outcompeting any company they didn't acquire

It's somewhat doubtful but even if they did, that'd be much slower progress, achieving the goal.

> easily outcompeting any company

If it were easy they'd be doing that instead.

Everyone is "doing that instead". Every successful company in every industry is heavily using AI at this point.

If that were illegal, the next best option would be AI labs acquiring the companies instead of just selling them tokens.

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