> They don't do this stuff out of the kindness of their hearts

No, but they do have incentive to continue to release with open weights because doing so directly affects the US based labs that are doing this for profit and power.

What's likely to happen is import controls on software as a form of US protectionism. It will be the encryption battle all over again, but this time about your right to both run AI models locally on your own hardware (that the labs and big tech would love if you could continue to not able to afford or acquire so they can rent it to you), and a ban on the distribution and use of foreign models.

I wouldn't be surprised of Anthropic and OpenAI also successfully lobby for a limit on how big open source models can be in the US as well in the name of "safety."

Make no mistake, they all fully intend to pull the ladder up behind them, and they intend to do it soon.