This website illustrates nicely how the US lost the competition–at least for now–in open(ish) LLM models: https://www.atomproject.ai/.
What it fails to mention is that the new open(ish) models are, more or less, on par in their capabilities with closed models as well.
It'll be interesting to see what the consequences are, but my money is on the open models fostering innovation, and not on closed models winning the race for AGI. #AIResearch #AGI_hype
/via Wired