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I hope Anthropic will survive this. If they don’t it will just be perfect proof that you cannot be both moral and successful in the US.
Assuming the govt doesn’t take other crazy measures to punish them.
So much for this waste of a domain name. https://x.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175
"Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. "
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See my other comments around here. This idea that salaries in the US are so much higher than Europe for all these top AI roles just isn’t true. Even the big American companies have been opening offices in places like London to hire the top talent at high salaries. This also isn’t hypothetical. I know top-talent engineers and researchers that have moved out of the USA in the last 12 months due to the political climate…
> I know top-talent engineers and researchers that have moved out of the USA in the last 12 months due to the political climate Are they working remotely for US companies? In Canada that’s very much still the case everywhere you look > Even the big American companies have been opening offices in places like London to hire the top talent at high salaries. I assumed this discussion was about rejecting working for US co…
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What use are weights without the hardware to run them? That's the gate. Local AI right now is a toy in comparison. Nukes are actually a great example of something also gated by resources. Just having the knowledge/plans isn't good enough.
Scaling has hit a wall and will not get us to AGI. Open-source models are only a couple of months behind closed models, and the same level of capability will require smaller and smaller models in the future. This is where open research can help: make the models smaller ASAP. I think it's likely that we'll be able to get something human-level to run on a single 16GB GPU before the end of the decade.
That's apparently about 6k books' worth of data.
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The legal name of the department is still the Department of Defense. The "Department of War" is a preferred name by the administration.
Identity affirming care now includes avoiding the DODs deadname. What a world.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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I wouldn't call senior AI researchers / scientists laypersons. In fact in this sense politicians are laypersons. There are already several comments here showing xAIs involvement. Please save clutter and read before posting.
Re: Reading, I don't see any xAI names on the list (currently 643) and only Google and OpenAI are selectable company options. And this page on HN is only calling out xAI.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473#47188709
They are very much not a part of the initiative. Their involvement is and will be non-existent. Unless of course, you want their lay staff to make some noise?
1.5 hours after this was posted, Sam Altman stated openai will work with the DoW. So much for this waste of a domain name. https://x.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175 "Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. "
OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189650 - Feb 2026 (22 comments)
1.5 hours after this was posted, Sam Altman stated openai will work with the DoW. So much for this waste of a domain name. https://x.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175 "Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. "
I'd prefer to see board (or executive) level signatories over lay employees -- the people who can enforce enterprise policy rather than just voice their opinions -- but this is encouraging to see nonetheless. I can't help but notice that Grok/X is not part of this initiative, though. I realize that frontier models are really coming from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, but it feels like someone is going to give in to t…
Or just reincorporate in Finland or something. If the US is going to be this hostile to business, time to gtfo.