Altman Wants the US to Win Both Open and Closed AI

Buried in the day's briefings, Sam Altman staked out a position calling for American leadership across both open-weight and closed frontier models — a notable widening from OpenAI's closed-first posture.

In a line that would have been out of character a year ago, Sam Altman argued that the US should "win both open and closed AI," as captured in @marcopapa99's July 25 briefing. For a company whose name became a running joke about how closed it is, embracing the open-weight side of the ledger is a strategic tell.

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