I would like the USA to not lose the ‘AI race’ but I don’t want other countries to lose either. Ensuring continued US leadership in AI without constraining global progress necessitates a dual-pronged strategy that couples strategic national R&D investments with adherence to open international standards. On the technical front, integrating edge computing, specialized AI silicon, and advanced hardware-software co-design with standardized protocols for interoperability enables US institutions to maintain a competitive edge. Simultaneously, promoting collaborative frameworks for data sharing, federated learning, and algorithmic auditing mitigates risks of siloed innovation, ensuring that breakthroughs in efficiency, low-latency inference, and energy-optimized training regimes benefit a global network of research and industry stakeholders. In the USA I would like to see major resources dedicated to both open models such as the ones from Meta, as well as the use of French Mistral open mo...