Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment. Let's not ruin it.

Open-weight models are becoming the foundation for the next AI ecosystem. The US should compete in it, not wall itself off. I have seen a version of this story before. In 2013 I co-founded Mesosphere, an open source cloud-native software company. We built on Apache Mesos, which my co-founder Ben Hindman had helped create at UC Berkeley. We later built DC/OS (Data Center Operating System) around…