For US citizens: counting on Open Source AI is another libertarian fantasy.

Open source AI should and will get better for sure (including better defined first), but the state will have the power over AI never the less.

If you don't like govt's AI policy or the people making those policies, go fix that, don't act like you can avoid them.

For Chinese: saying "Open source AI must win" sounds like singing "L'Internationale, sera le genre humain". The reality is Open Source AI will be over the moment US competitive pressure gone.

For rest of world: there's no real AI for you so far, go work on it or be a citizen of US&A or China.