■ In this week's AI Lab: Why the United States needs open AI models more than it needs data centers. Also: Socratic reasoning for AI, enhancing models’ spatial intelligence, and a more graceful way for robots to fall down.

Please note: AI Lab will be off next week for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Depending on foreign-made open models is a risk

Since 2022, America has had a solid lead in artificial intelligence thanks to advanced models from high-flying companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI. A growing number of experts, however, worry that the US is starting to fall behind when it comes to minting open-weight AI models that can be downloaded, adapted, and run locally...

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