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>>isaacf+(OP)
At some point the U.S. government should step up and provide some resources, and offer large datasets for open acess training and pretrained models. In the future, there will be many AI models for various purposes, closed source, guarded, with their moat being the costs to train a similar model on a dataset of similar breadth. This eliminates smaller orgs from ever being able to offer a competing model, and ruins innovation by gatekeeping who is allowed to innovate.

This is exactly the sort of role government is made for. To uplift the collective using the power the collective possess as a massive meta organism. Opening up access to these models will allow our developers to compete against the world and dominate in this space, much like how international researchers in other fields often leave their home countries for the U.S. to get at the resources needed to even engage in cutting edge research (such as institutional access to equipment, compute, data, and research funding that simply doesn't exist in other places).

>>asdff+oX1
Prefer the government to force companies like Google to give their data to competitors rather than the government assemble data itself (unless it's at their fingertips already for whatever reason).

What you're proposing won't level the playing field much because Google will still have way more data.