SITUATION EXPLAINED: What is at stake in the open source AI race? We asked @perrymetzger, chairman of Alliance for the Future. "Open source models are a sort of cultural ambassador and civilizational ambassador." "If everyone ends up using Chinese open source models, it means that the answers that they get to their questions and the way that their software is and is not willing to behave ends up being dictated by the Chinese." "It would be better from my point of view if the US was putting…