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by greggoB 14 days ago
> A 90 days delay on the release of new models would have been insane. I guess I'm glad it's been revised at least on this specific point.

What would have made it "insane" exactly? The only argument I can imagine is that it gives non-US models (e.g. DeepSeek) a potential edge in the market during that time. But this potentially seems to be mitigated it being banned in the US anyway [0].

Given society seems to have developed just fine prior to the release of LLMs, I don't understand what the rush for more powerful and - potentially - more dangerous iterations of this technology is. If there is a legitimate reason that 90 days is somehow catastrophic, can someone ELI5?

[0] https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2025/04/these-states-h...

2 comments

Non-US models are not banned in the US: they are used daily in every state of the US. Some misguided state governments temporarily banned employees from downloading the R1 models and variants released 16 months ago on state government computers. The article and your comment are misleading :-)
Assuming this is so, and continues to be the case: is this really still a basis for a 90 day period in releasing new models being somehow insane/catastrophic?
US laws don't apply globally.
Coordination between powers is possible, and starts with actions like this which show a willingness to compromise.
Not really the point, plus doesn't answer the primary basis of my comment :)