> He elaborated to TechCrunch that this means he wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.

Those market entrants would face commodity pricing power vs. high capital costs, no?

Maybe there'd be ROI but I think there's another layer or competitive dimension that's neither frontier lab nor distilled model lab.