The U.S. Commerce Department today issued a report in support of “open-weight” generative AI models like Meta’s Llama 3.1, but recommended the government develop “new capabilities” to monitor these models for potential risks. The report, authored by the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), finds that open-weight models broaden generative AI’s availability to small companies, researchers, nonprofits and individual developers. For these reasons, ...