The whole thesis falls apart though. You can't be on your way to "power over everything" and get distilled into free Chinese models within months. Pick one. The bottleneck is compute and data, not the model. That's why they could only gate it for a bit. The ITAR thing proves it: no nationality controls in place, so the only option was killing the whole thing. Not exactly what an all-powerful gatekeeper does.
> no nationality controls in place
Not for now, but how long before we have KYC regulations concerning LLMs?
Does any other place have the infrastructure Anthropic requires to train their models and run inference?
No. If we cannot even have an EU CloudFlare, then we definitely do not have the infra for this kind of computing. The EU options are not even close to what CF can do
There are fortunately some initiatives and interesting developments in the European market. Take bunny.net for example. We have to start somewhere in Europe, right? Better late than never.
(reposted) As I understand it, ITAR regulations for export controls have just been applied to any form of Mythos. These are overseen by U.S. Departments of State and Commerce, and forbid foreign nationals from access to any form of Mythos, either within or outside the U.S. Only U.S. citizens and immigrants that are holders of a "green card" may now access Mythos. It appears that Anthropic does not have internal contr…
(reposted) As I understand it, ITAR regulations for export controls have just been applied to any form of Mythos. These are overseen by U.S. Departments of State and Commerce, and forbid foreign nationals from access to any form of Mythos, either within or outside the U.S. Only U.S. citizens and immigrants that are holders of a "green card" may now access Mythos. It appears that Anthropic does not have internal contr…
I never really understood this "US person" restriction. There are 350M people in US, mostly citizens and green cards holders, surely some of them could be working for a foreign power.
Does any other place have the infrastructure Anthropic requires to train their models and run inference?
No. If we cannot even have an EU CloudFlare, then we definitely do not have the infra for this kind of computing. The EU options are not even close to what CF can do
The whole thesis falls apart though. You can't be on your way to "power over everything" and get distilled into free Chinese models within months. Pick one. The bottleneck is compute and data, not the model. That's why they could only gate it for a bit. The ITAR thing proves it: no nationality controls in place, so the only option was killing the whole thing. Not exactly what an all-powerful gatekeeper does.
> no nationality controls in place Not for now, but how long before we have KYC regulations concerning LLMs?
That’s really what Dario wants. Let’s hope he doesn’t get it
This is the part where the USA and allied countries can gain a headstart from using such an overpowered model. This only just shows how strong Mythos/Fable will be, once released to the public. I'm guessing about 0.5 year till public.