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Nathan Lambert's written Congressional testimony on the state of open models - Chinese open-weight downloads now 2x America's, >80% of OpenRouter open-model usage

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Wednesday, Sep 23, 2026 ยท 2:56AM
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Worth a read if you track open weights. Nathan Lambert (interconnects) posted the written version of his Congressional testimony on where open models stand. The numbers that got me: Hugging Face downloads of Chinese open-weight models are about 3.2B vs 1.6B American since he started tracking in Aug

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