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Open-weight AI models were supposed to be about developer freedom. In 2026, they have become instruments of national strategy. Meta has distributed Llama to over 700 million downloads. DeepSeek was trained for $5.6 million. China's military adapted Llama into ChatBIT, reportedly achieving 90 percent of GPT-4 performance. The question of whether models should be open is no longer technical — it is geopolitical.