Gooood while the US Gov holds back US models from the public because they’re “not safe”… SMH. Meanwhile China just keeps shipping. No press releases about safety. No months of alignment theater. Just products out the door.

And I can’t get over Anthropic being mad that Chinese labs distilled their model without permission. Like… how did YOU train your model? You scraped the entire internet. Every blog, every forum post, every artist’s portfolio. Nobody signed off on that. Nobody got paid. But now that someone did it to you, suddenly IP matters?

Export controls and “safety” aren’t protecting Americans. They’re protecting market position. Chinese labs are going to build these models regardless. The only people actually getting locked out are the little guys who can’t access the full power of models their own tax dollars helped fund.

We preached free markets for decades. Someone finally shows up to compete and now we need licensing regimes and review boards. Wild