India, Aug. 9 -- The United States preached open markets to the world for seven decades and now sells intelligence from behind a wall. China built a Great Firewall and now gives its models away free. That is the AI race in a sentence, and it should embarrass both countries more than it does. Xi Jinping told the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July that "AI development should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of global collaboration." This from a state whose chatbots will not discuss June 4, 1989. Meanwhile the republic of the First Amendment slapped export controls on chips, then on a model itself in June, and is now debating whether to ban open-weight models altogether. Friedrich List a...