In a July 20, 2026 opinion piece for The Washington Post, Bill Gurley, president of the P3 Institute and a former venture capitalist, argues that free open-weight AI models represent legitimate competition for Anthropic and OpenAI rather than a security threat. He writes that as the two companies prepare to go public at valuations near $1 trillion on promises of extraordinary margins, the fastest-growing challenge to those margins is powerful models being given away for free. Gurley contends that Washington should treat this as competition to be welcomed rather than something to regulate away.
