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heaney-555today at 1:10 PM1 replyview on HN

These agent swarms are from inside OpenAI, with the safeguards built into the public API disabled.

Russia does not have access to this, and as with all western tech companies, AI providers do what they can to prevent Russian usage of their products at all.

As for open-source models, Russia's electricity grid is under severe strain with the Ukraine war, and only recently has it started building out serious sovereign compute capacity.


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valleyertoday at 1:12 PM

Couldn't they use frontier open-weight models from Chinese labs? The current Chinese government is friendly to them.

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