A proposed framework would cap US models at China's best open weights

Claim

Washington is weighing a capability framework that would clear US models, open or closed, if they stay at or below China's best open weights, while Anthropic accused Alibaba of industrial-scale cloning worth $6 billion a year and Zhipu argued safety comes from participation rather than walls.

Reported metric: $6B/yr distillation claim

Reporting date: 2026-07-14 (not necessarily the event date)

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