They don’t have a monopoly and if they do, it would only be because the EU and the United States let them or I should say they let all their decisions be made by private companies who scraped the public Internet and now want to fence it in for their up-and-coming IPO.

Hilariously bad take. Open weight models can be retrained of fine-tuned, that's the entire point. The idea that the "Chinese government controls your intelligence" is laughable in the case of open weight models. Once the weights are released you can do whatever you want with them. The idea that there's economic capture by the Chinese for products they're literally giving away is stupid to the point of inanity.

I can only assume this account is pure shilling for the closed-source AI labs.

Open Source is free as in speech

Open Weights is free as in beer

"Open source" open models can also survive if they are seen as a necessary cost of doing business. Same logic as tech companies working together on Linux. "We need an operating system. But an operating system is expensive to make on our own and does not really provide an edge. So let's just work on and use the open source one."