Yes, but what does that affect?

If we end up with a world where only US firms can use the latest LLMs and the latest LLMs are needed to keep up in the software world, or in making prototypes, then that's a whole series of fields which are blocked from us.

So I think we need to make sure that we no only can, but build frontier LLMs from scratch-- not RLed on foreign data, but genuinely from scratch.

Even from an economic point of view, I don't think a continuous outflow of ~200 USD/month for every office job is sustainable, and that's what we'd get if the plausible scenario is borne out. An inter-EU cost of 200 USD/month for every office job though, that's survivable.