As expected, President Donald Trump’s administration recently unveiled Winning race: AI action plan AI went to all to free companies, which they want to ensure that “the United States and its allies (AI) win the race.”
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What about security and responsibility? Not so much.
Contraindication …
The AI Action Plan states that it is “a national security for the United States compulsory and to achieve and maintain unquestioned and unwanted global technical dominance,” and then it firmly encourages that “Open-SURS and Open-Weet Weet AI models are provided independently by developers for someone in the world.”
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Can I only see a contradiction with “unwanted technical dominance” and open-source codes and models, which can be made “free available” to someone in the world?
Of course, the track record of open-source software speaks for itself. According to a study by Harvard Business School in January 2024, if companies had to make equivalent technologies, it would cost $ 8.8 trillion to reconstruct the open-source software. Our server, our clouds, and much more our entire IT infrastructure now run on Linux and Open-SOS software.
Nevertheless, open source is an important catalyst for innovation
Trump’s AI Action Plan frameed the open-source and open-weight AI model as an important catalyst for innovation. This is true. As long as we can, and have argued, as long as we are not in blue on the face, what is the appropriate open-source AI definition, AI is made concretely on the structure of open-source programs such as tensorflow and pitorch.
As Chris Wolf, Broadcom’s AI and Global Head of Advanced Services, recently said, “Thank you for thanks Open source, the speed of AI innovation now crosses anything Could achieve closed models. ,
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The administration also claims that these independently available models empower technical giants, but also small startups, academic researchers and government agencies. By providing access to the underlying code and model weight, the Open-SUS AI has been deployed as a foundation stone to pursue the AI area.
The policy statement argues that open models are not only engines of domestic innovation, but also emerging geological values as global technical standards. This step is to combat China’s growing AI influence, especially open models such as Deepsek.
This plan explains what should be done to promote a strong open-source AI ecosystem. It increases access to high -power computing resources, which were first closed behind expensive, long -term contracts.
So, who is going to pay?
This is easy to say, but who is going to pay for all high -priced compute power?
This will be done through National AI Research Resources (NAIRR) The Pilot Program, which is supported in turn in turn by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy. These will then partner with technical companies to provide academic and startup communities with advanced model access.
US-based individuals and open-source groups can Apply for access to AI resources for start-up projectsRequest access to educational platforms (such as computational notebooks), and browse additional tools to train and test curate datasets, pre-educated models and their AI systems.
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It all seems impressive, but a public-private project, NAIRR, has no specific funds from the recently passed American budget, also known as the Big Beautiful Bill (BBB). Instead, it is running $ 30 million former President Joe Biden gave it And $ 30 million which was donated by Nvidia and other technical companies. As a result, only 35 of the over 150 proposals were awarded NAIRR resources. There is a very strong demand, but nothing like enough money.
While BBB’s initial draft proposed $ 500 million pool of federal funding is particularly associated with AI Perinogen and infrastructureSome of which were to go to Nair, finally, which was dropped. Today, there is no nairr funding stream.
In fact, while there is there In AI Funding BBB, it comes with many wires attachedThese include compliance with strict domestic content rules and prohibition on participation by “prohibited foreign institutions”. Thus, as a law firm Ropes and grams Warns, “Companies should invest under the ongoing monitoring to avoid proper diligence, supply chain transparency, and losing federal benefits, facing enforcement operations, or losing important partnerships. Technology licensing system, M&A, loan, and reorganization activities must be carefully protected to avoid unknown violations.”
Therefore, while the AI action plan frees the hands of AI companies to do much, whatever they want, business and open source organizations will get themselves interrupted by the lack of funds and many restrictions in search of federal funding.
‘Established on American values’
By supporting open models “installed on American values”, the government expects to determine the standards that will not only, but also global, AI development.
What does it mean? I do not have a good answer. I know what it does not mean. The AI action plan makes it clear that if your plan includes “misinformation, diversity, equity and inclusion, and climate change”, it will not be approved.
The scheme accepts competitive stress between the champions by technical giants and ownership models made by open-source options. It claims that open source is not just a defensive hedge against domestic monopoly, but a strategic aggressive to shape international AI criteria, such as American competitors, such as state -backed Chinese models, carry forward their own open platforms.
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However, the scheme is reduced by making the open-source release mandatory. Those decisions are left to developers and their organizations. Nevertheless, the federal government will reward and support the open AI ecosystem. How? Through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the Department of Commerce, the government aims to encourage small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to adopt open sources AI software and open-wate AI models. However, there are no details yet.
However, all this is Marco Rubio in charge of all this, which is the state’s secretary, National Security Advisor and the acting archives of the United States. It should be noted that they have no technical or professional experience in open-source or AI research experience.
What does AI Action Plan mean really for open-source AI?
I think it can be best expressed as “best wishes, but almost nothing in the way of solid support”.
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