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It's equally signaling that other US-based labs can't provide reliable access to their closed-weight models.
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Not in the same way, no, because they have not been targeted, while they should have if the same rules applied, according to Anthropic's depiction of the situation.

This is potential tyranny aimed at Anthropic, specifically.

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For anyone outside the US this is a clear statement that either models are open or they are controlled by an erratic and hostile US government.

Being a US ally has become meaningless, and using a company that’s not targeted today does nothing to protect you tomorrow.

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Europe doesn't seem to care so much about erratic and hostile governments when it cozied up to Russian gas for decades, something it still continues to do just hiding behind third party countries.

It's a clear statement that European morals are purely performative

Just like how the EU is hostile towards US companies, but very light to the touch when it comes to corruption with HSBC, FIFA or VW. With such hostile and erratic allies, who needs enemies?

Let's not even get into Orban. You can never trust the EU again since who knows if they're capable of electing someone like that in the future? Trust is broken forever

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Yes, because they’re so bleeding edge and powerful.

Whether you believe that is another thing. But that’s the signal. It’s amazing marketing for them, even if a pain in the ass for customers rn

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> because they’re so bleeding edge and powerful.

Investors will have so much FOMO over this

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This is signaling to US companies that non-US providers cannot create cutting edge capabilities for their models.

Major alarm bells should be ringing for anyone not using a US-based LLM.

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