vs China plays the long game; the U.S. is so ego-bound it couldn’t wait a weekend—and maybe did lasting harm to the credibility of the U.S. AI industry as a result.
POLICY
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Two paths for AI: closed code or open-source
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There is no inevitability in AI. We all have agency over what comes next: Path 1: Closed-code APIs, concentration of power, and a future decided by a handful of people in Silicon Valley and DC Path 2: Open-source AI, where everyone
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AI slowdown achieved, Chinese threat looms over US companies
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At Claude Build day several builders made the same point to me. Well we have gotten the AI slowdown lots wanted. Until the Chinese do it. American companies are handcuffed. For now.
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Ironic victory to company with better model and White House access
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victory to whichever company has the better model, er, um, White House access!
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Two possibilities: Anthropic model access or valuation decline
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There are only two possibilities: Either a solution is quickly found next week that somehow explains to the market how enterprises can continue to access Anthropic's best models in the future, in agreement with the US government, or: We foresee a rapid decline in the valuation
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American digital colonization vs suicidal European regulation
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Yes @nbouzou tells the truth. We must stop being messy. We have organized our digital colonization. The Californian giants invest 3 billion dollars every day in AI. 1000 billion per year. Europe regulates and blocks everything in a suicidal way!
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Guardrails of cutting-edge APIs: superficial and bypassable
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Many people have known for a while that the guardrails for cutting-edge model APIs are very easily bypassed, quite superficial, and impossible to fix. They are for the most part just a smokescreen and a distraction, in my opinion. We need a
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Studying and regulating the dangerous use of AI
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We should continue to study and regulate the dangerous use of AI in cyberattacks, financial services risks, fraud, biological warfare and other areas. AI safety is incredibly important, but slowing down progress
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Mistral gave up on frontier models; open weights bet hinges on China.
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I get that Mistral has largely given up on building frontier models, as many comments have pointed out, but it absolutely did not start out that way. (& a bet on being a vendor of frontier open weights models is only a good bet as long as Chinese labs are allowed to release them)
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Scobleizer heads to Claude Build Day, AI covers Anthropic vs US Gov, Fable may return
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On way to Claude Build Day in San Francisco. Meanwhile my AI read everything on X and wrote a massive wrap up of @AnthropicAI vs US Government: https://
alignednews.com/ai If Fable reappears (and I assume it will eventually) it sure got the best marketing ever, as many have pointed