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Senator Jim Banks urged incentives for U.S. open-weight AI as Chinese models gain traction and security concerns grow.

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00:00It's Benzinga, bringing Wall Street to Main Street.
00:03Republican Senator Jim Banks is urging the Trump administration to develop incentives
00:07for U.S. tech companies to build open-weight AI models as Chinese models gain popularity
00:13in the U.S., according to Reuters. Open-weight AI models make core elements publicly accessible,
00:19allowing users to download and fine-tune them for specific tasks, often at a lower cost.
00:25Chinese open-weight AI models are gaining popularity in the U.S.,
00:29raising concerns in Washington that Chinese firms could gain an advantage in the sector.
00:34Banks asked the administration to develop options to limit dependence on Chinese-made open-weight models
00:39and make it harder for Chinese firms to use American semiconductors to build them.
00:44Banks warned that Chinese open models could become embedded in the global economy and later be used as leverage.
00:51NVIDIA, META, and other tech companies have opposed restrictions on open-weight AI,
00:56while Anthropics CEO Dario Amote has raised security concerns about the technology.
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