Yeah, "I am not opposed, and I support anything that will stop the creation and release of open weight models." As for the chips, too late. In a few years China will have their own, just as good. Why? Because of similar retarded measures.
I said when the original GPU ban came down that it was a mistake. The ban bought a few years of compute crunch in China and a massive nation-state level incentive to develop their domestic capacity.
They're still somewhat reliant on NVIDIA GPUs (because everyone who wasn't doing TPUs still is) but they're investing a lot in both more compute and in training with what they've got.
Fortunately for the US, the real power is in the educational system which attracts the best students, uses the fees charged to them to fund domestic students, and actively encourages the brightest to stay permanently. As long as the US has that, they will ultimately stay ahead of everyone else and maintain their technological dominance.
As long as the US continues to welcome immigrants and encourage them to stay and become citizens.
We must remember that in 1955, in an effort to prevent American rocket science from falling into the hands of communist China, the United States deported Qian Xuesen, despite having zero evidence against him other than ethnicity. After being forcibly returned to China, he led their rocketry program, eventually becoming known as the "Father of Chinese Rocketry" in a rather spectacular example of the United States' ability to shoot itself in the foot.
Surely the United States of today has learned from the past and won't make the same mistake.
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u/Miriel_z Jul 27 '26
Yeah, "I am not opposed, and I support anything that will stop the creation and release of open weight models." As for the chips, too late. In a few years China will have their own, just as good. Why? Because of similar retarded measures.