The Chinese government has spent three years giving away its most capable artificial intelligence to anyone to use. Chinese authorities have reportedly been meeting with Alibaba, ByteDance and the start-up Z.ai to discuss restricting overseas access to some of China’s most advanced models — including systems that have not yet been released. The right response is the opposite: America and its allies should build and deploy their own so-called open-weight models, which users can download, run and modify on their machines. China’s move is an opening for the United States to take the lead again on A.I. Read the full article in the New York Times.