Directs the Secretary of Commerce to help businesses, agencies, and states adopt American open AI models, and to assess security risks from AI models made by foreign adversaries.

Official title: Open-Source AI Leadership Act

Next stop House floor: awaiting a vote

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House

Introduced 27-AUG-2026

Referred 27-AUG-2026

Approved by committee 16-SEP-2026

Key points

Lets the Commerce Secretary name a point of contact and sign agreements with companies, agencies, states, and allied foreign partners to promote qualified open AI models.
Requires the Secretary to publish a public report on risks from foreign adversary AI models 18 months after enactment and annually after that, and sends each report to the House Energy and Commerce and Senate Commerce committees.
Ends the reporting requirement 10 years after enactment.
Bars the Secretary from using this Act to ban, restrict, or make unavailable any open AI model in interstate or foreign commerce.

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Official CRS summary

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Committee referrals (2)

Policy area

Science, Technology, Communications

Sponsor Gabe Evans (R-CO) Cosponsors · 0

No cosponsors.

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