One could argue that open source won’t change much with regard to China and Russia.
Both countries have access to LLMs already. And if they didn’t, they would have built their own or gotten access through corporate espionage.
What open source does is it helps us better understand & control the tech these countries use. And it helps level up our own homegrown tech. Both of these are good advantages to have.
That last paragraph is an opinion you seem to have just formed as you typed it stated as a fact that doesn’t seem to hold up to even the lightest scrutiny.
Both countries have access to LLMs already. And if they didn’t, they would have built their own or gotten access through corporate espionage.
What open source does is it helps us better understand & control the tech these countries use. And it helps level up our own homegrown tech. Both of these are good advantages to have.