The entire tech industry has descended into chaos over the past week in a fight fundamentally about who gets to control the future of AI, centered on open weight models. After the release of China’s powerful Kimi K3 open-weight model and OpenAI’s autonomous hacking fiasco, Anthropic has led a lobbying effort to restrict access to open weight AI models. In response, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft, Meta, Google, IBM, Hugging Face, Mozilla, Palantir, Dell, and dozens of other companies have publicly backed open weight models, while Anthropic argues against them. The debate is analyzed by Matthew Berman, co-founder of Forward Future, who joins to break down the dispute rocking Silicon Valley and Washington DC.