If a nation rents its intelligence from a foreign provider, it has outsourced a strategic capability it can neither inspect nor switch off. Model weights belong in the same category as the grid, the water supply, and the ports.
Model weights are not a software asset. They are the trained reasoning capacity a country runs its decisions through, and renting them from a foreign provider is a strategic dependency dressed up as a procurement line. This is the case for treating weights as critical national infrastructure, and for proving what your intelligence did rather than trusting that it behaved.
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