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> As a non-US citizen Opus 4.8 is the best American LLM I will ever have access to. Your overall argument makes some sense, but I would bet any money this simp
by cortesoft 4mo ago
> As a non-US citizen Opus 4.8 is the best American LLM I will ever have access to.
Your overall argument makes some sense, but I would bet any money this simply is not true. Even if the US maintains some of the restrictions on export (which is in no way a given with how fickle this administration is, let alone the next administration), as LLMs advance, Fable will eventually be considered a lower tier model, and is likely to have restrictions lifted.
- pizzly 4mo agoThat makes it better, paying money to always having access to the second rate models from US AI providers. The problem remains.
- cheonic52749 4mo ago> paying money to always having access to the second rate models from US AI providers. The problem remains. Your alternative: Pay a Chinese or EU company for a third rate model. The choice is yours.
- FpUser 4mo ago>"The choice is yours." I think (probably except cases with regulatory restrictions) most will very much prefer to pay for "second rate" models from other suppliers, including China and help them to become premium choice.
- suddenlybananas 4mo agoThey do catch up.
- byzantinegene 4mo agonot if they run out of investments to train their cutting edge models. Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are going to be a massive flop if they aren't able to sell their best models to the world.
- cortesoft 4mo agoWhich is why I said the overall argument makes sense.