USA, a country that known for the land of freedom, is now restricting frontier models to the point where non-Americans cannot even use them.

China, a "authoritarian state" country, "the antonym of freedom", with a software industry that is especially capitalist, has produced all the competitive open-weight models.

It really is IRONIC.

Disclosure: I am Chinese, and I understand this strategy comes from being behind, using open source as an asymmetric way to compete and make up for missing compute by sharing the burden, etc. But still, very ironically.