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How are Point 1, "We should not sell powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China," and Point 2, "We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation opera
by ListeningPie 2mo ago
How are Point 1, "We should not sell powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China," and Point 2, "We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations," addressed by making open-weight models illegal?
Point 1 is about restricting the sale of chips, not models. Point 2 concerns companies using closed models to train their own models through distillation.
The real issue is that open-weight models can run on much less powerful hardware, making the current AI business model, where companies train a powerful model and gatekeep access to it, less relevant. Once open-weight models become good enough, much of the future revenue for today's leading AI labs could disappear. But just as Microsoft still has a market so will the large AI houses have one, but the moat will not be providing AI responses.