OpenAI is afraid of open weight models. Should the United States be? | TechCrunch0

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• July 21, 2026

The impressive capabilities of Chinese lab Moonshot’s Kimi K3, the largest open-weight large language model, have started a debate that combines two things: the economic possibilities of American AI giants and the future of LLMs as a technology. OpenAI’s head of strategic futures, Dean W. Ball, went so far as to argue that the US