I once worked at a startup that did this. They raised over $1m+ on a slideshow and a fake mockup while convincing investors they had a working product. This company was eventually acquired and swallowed up. From what I understand it didn't make it to the market they intended.
>We should not sell powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China, and we should crack down on the rampant smuggling3 and workarounds used to obtain access to such chips. China has limited domestic production capacity, and therefore, due to the scaling laws, cannot build more powerful models than the US without US chips. This is the most efficient and direct way to block threat #1, and by hampering the training of models that are out of reach of US law, it also indirectly helps with threat #2.
If hardware becomes affordable for the masses, then Anthropic current business model is at risk.
Also isn't the point moot if fable is so scary it needs to be banned and open weight models are already close on its heels? Even if China never imported another Nvidia chip the models he's so scared of are already out of the bag. At this point democratizing access seems like the best path forward.
Imagine regulating a programming language. I remember when Delphi, Vb6, .net, etc was used often to create Remote Access Trojans and viruses were widespread. Companies didn't compete to ban other languages. Crime is crime. What would regulating open-weight models do for people that actually intend on using these tools for crime ?
This is why I don't always use the official Gemini Web app. Lately I've found that it's more useful to utilize a CLI. I'm looking forward to the day they add MCP in the web.
The spamming and trolling was just an issue during the HN traffic spike.
Now things are much calmer and more interesting. Additionally, I'm also adding more moderation and counter-bot mechanism.
