House panels probe Airbnb, Anysphere over use of Chinese AI models (opens in new tab)

Is this an effort by OpenAI/Anthropic to force US companies to use their more expensive closed-weight models? I don't see the problem with US companies using Chinese models if they are hosted in the US.

This is Anthropic's plan.

To stop us from using powerful open-weight models from running on your machine and they want you to pay for their expensive and over-priced models.