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Building Our Future

Advanced Computing Edition

Build an American Third-Path for AI

Between closed frontier APIs and unrestricted releases lies an open-weight strategy that can lower costs, preserve commercial incentives, and compete with China.

Jul 20, 2026
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Hi, I’m Andrew Glenn, founding editor of Building Our Future. In this edition of our newsletter, we propose America pursue a logical ‘third-path’ option, fostering the development of an ecosystem of open-weight model laboratories that use a risk-mitigating framework to lower costs, preserve commercial incentives, and keep American technology competitive with China.

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