US gov't lobbied by major US labs is about to ban open source models.

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Reports are surfacing that major US AI labs are lobbying the government to restrict or ban high-compute open-source weights under the guise of national security. Critics argue this is a play for regulatory capture to kill competition from open models like Llama or Mistral. If passed, it would effectively criminalize hosting or building powerful models outside of a few sanctioned 'safety' labs.