US can simply ban export of AI tools and wieghts like they did with PGP. Austria should start using Mistral or open models.

Yes, but the highest levels of the US government… are not currently the best and the brightest, so they may well implement a ban after they've been exported or remove a ban in exchange for a shiny golden bauble.

Or start a war for developing own weights /s

I wouldn't put it past them, and I'm saying that without an /s