U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

digitaltrees

Open source is looking great right now

vkaku

Keep your **** models to yourselves.... the world really has moved on to open models which can give you good enough results at a fraction of the cost and zero BS licensing.

quantumwoke

This is for the preview period, but it's not a good sign. Opus 4.8 may be the last frontier model available to the masses...

vindex10

Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-administration-asks-o...

OkWing99

Why do I get the feeling the administration is doing this to buy a position in the AI companies before they go public. If non US citizens shouldn't have the models - wouldn't that cause both Anthropic and OAI to fire non-citizens?

RickS

US citizens to remain nonviolent at any cost, issue strongly worded internet comments, and find themselves a little less free every day.

NooneAtAll3

"government needs to step in and regulate ai" "wait, not like that"

dude250711

So, that DeepSeek thing, you are saying it's not that bad?

sandworm101

This will be exactly as effective as the BBC's efforts to ensure only UK taxpayers are allowed to stream Doctor Who from BBC servers on Christmas morning.

bilekas

Wow.. Okay so it's official now that the playbook is "we will try to prevent anyone who we don't like to use advanced tech". I understand if its military hardware and software, that's the property of the US government however this is the property of a private company.. Now seemingly being commandeered and issued at the will of the government, sounds very Russian/Chinese to me. Is there a precedent for this before in a democratic country ?

testfrequency

+1 point to China! In all seriousness, I can’t believe the AI firms are abiding by this peacefully. If I truly loved my company, and I felt we were on the bleeding edge of incredible, life changing products, why would I allow my company to be set up for failure by remaining somewhere that clearly wants control over the sovereignty. The US gov sees these AI companies as bartering power, not as innovation. Wouldn’t you as a parent always want what’s best for your child, not for yourself? It also feels like they can’t just relocate out of the country, as the administration will surely sanction anyone from business within the country again. These firms are so over inflated with evaluations and opex, they’ve dug themselves into a corner. This is not to say regulation does not exist in any other country, but it’s clear now after what’s happening at Anthropic + OAI that the US gov has taken these companies hostage. This is only further playing into the hands of open source and the outside models; the US gov is going to be to blame for when they all lose the race to low cost/free.

wewewedxfgdf

Remember how China turned its tech industry into a smoking ruin - make making them all submit to political priorities: Ant Group: China halted Ant’s IPO and forced a restructuring Alibaba: China fined and politically disciplined Alibaba Didi: China punished Didi after its US listing by removing its apps, freezing users, forcing delisting Tutoring platforms: banned profit from core school-subject tutoring. Tencent gaming: restricted youth gaming froze approvals NetEase and gaming companies: licence freeze stopped game companies from shipping games. Meituan: fined Meituan and forced changes to its labour and platform model. Huya/DouYu: blocked Tencent’s game-streaming merger, stopping commercial consolidation in a major entertainment market. Boss Zhipin / Full Truck Alliance: froze new users after listging in the US Crypto companbies: banned crypto trading and mining, forcing exchanges offshore. Think it's not happening to the US? tourism - people afraid to visit tariffs - wrecking ball to all businesses defence - why would anyone buy US weapons after Greenland and Canada internet clouds - Greenland made Europe decide that the US clouds can't be trusted, now sovereign computing matters and MS/AWS/Google are feeling it finance - no one trusts the US not to turn people into "non members of global society" by banning them from visa and credit card and banking systems

iLoveOncall

Thanks to the US government for helping kill Anthropic and OpenAI by preventing them from recouping any R&D money from new models. Doing god's work.

piokoch

One more wake up call for anyone outside USA, especially Europe. AI will be weaponized, on the battle ground too, but the bigger battle will be fought in the industry competition. Those who have access to state of the art models will have advantage over those who does not. Hopefully open-weight models will catch up, hopefully we, as the people, engineers will find the way to maintain those open-weight models on pair with the closed ones. I try to be optimistic, as we won some battles, against all odds, Linux is flourishing, open source solutions are mainstream.

thegabriele

In a scenario where some breakthrough in fusion energy will be discovered I envision: - instant, total world war if it's not coming from USA - let's finish all oil's reserve first otherwise

sscaryterry

This will be the end of the US's short-lived AI supremacy. OpenAI and Anthropic are already wildly unprofitable, cutting off the world-wide income stream is just fucking bad business.

SkitterKherpi

So them banning Fable for only non-Americans is what we non-Americans should expect to be the norm going forward? Way to build even more resentment abroad. I'm very pro-west, but at this point okay, I guess the rest of us have to side with China, not because we remotely like it, but because they don't try to be quite so antagonistic to us in everything they do.

pu_pe

Without access to leading models, I think open source LLM development will also slow down. I'm not sure which portion of their success right now is due to RLAF and distillation but it's certainly not zero.

sonink

There is an assumption that everyone is making here - that China will not do the same. It is entirely possible, that China restricts their frontier models - as and when they are developed - to only Chinese citizens. And India follows along. IMO AI is different from everything else. It is a weapon as potent as nuclear. It is only natural that it be treated as one.

akmarinov

Sooo both OpenAI and Anthropic going bankrupt soon? If they can’t freely sell access to their models and Chinese models catch up to Opus 4.8/GPT 5.5 in 6-8 months - then why pay OAI/Anthropic at all?