He makes good arguments, could also add that it would be a source of token sales for the big labs.
but with some misplaced assumptions.
- Open source shouldn't discriminate on contributors or nationalist biggotry of permitted users.
- Open weight models can/are being served from US datacenters.
Cursor was bought by mechahitler for $60B because it made an LLM, by taking Kimi 2.5 source, and retraining with free user data that was mostly distilled from frontier closed but other global models as well.