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neutronicus • today at 4:00 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I think GP's thesis is that selling only to the US government would preserve their moat by preventing distillation.


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blackmesaind • today at 6:54 PM

Also frees up more compute for recursive improvement, and gives them leverage over USG (makes regulatory & legal & other issues disappear) due to the frontier being significantly more effective for military use. There's a lot of chatter around distilled models being "close" to the frontier, but realistically they are optimized only to look good on benchmarks - and are still 6 months behind Anth / OAI models at that.

YawningAngel • today at 7:34 PM

If the US government is a monopsony buyer, why would it choose to pay high prices?