Clearly @vkhosla can profit financially from a closed approach to AI. But I don't think that his main reason to oppose open source frontier models. He is genuinely worried about China getting its hands on it. That worry is misguided. First, Chinese AI scientists and engineers are quite talented, and very much able to "fast follow" the West and innovate themselves (there are lots of good ideas from Chinese publications that make the whole community advance). Second, the Chinese government is even *more* worried about a lack of control of AI technology than their counterparts in liberal democracies. Imagine a future where every citizen's digital diet is mediated by AI assistants. This will clearly affect people's knowledge and opinions of politics, history, value systems, etc. AI assistants are fast becoming a kind of compressed repository of all human knowledge. Once such assistants are available for download and can be run locally, the Great Firewall of China is toast. The control of authoritarian governments over the information received by their citizens will be considerably more difficult to enforce. A future in which everyone has access to a wide variety of AI assistants with a diverse collection of expertise, language ability, culture, value systems, political opinions, and interpretations of history is the future we want. That future can *only* come about through open source AI platforms enabling a large diversity of fine-tuned systems.