AnalysisBusinessJuly 20, 2026

American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing

China's open-weights AI strategy is winning, while America's closed-first approach is doomed to fail. The moat lies in enterprise services, not models, and open technologies win in infrastructure adoption.

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