[cortesoft]

> As a non-US citizen Opus 4.8 is the best American LLM I will ever have access to.

Your overall argument makes some sense, but I would bet any money this simply is not true. Even if the US maintains some of the restrictions on export (which is in no way a given with how fickle this administration is, let alone the next administration), as LLMs advance, Fable will eventually be considered a lower tier model, and is likely to have restrictions lifted.

[pizzly]

That makes it better, paying money to always having access to the second rate models from US AI providers. The problem remains.

[cheonic52749]

> paying money to always having access to the second rate models from US AI providers. The problem remains.

Your alternative:

Pay a Chinese or EU company for a third rate model.

The choice is yours.

[FpUser]

>"The choice is yours."

I think (probably except cases with regulatory restrictions) most will very much prefer to pay for "second rate" models from other suppliers, including China and help them to become premium choice.

[byzantinegene]

not if they run out of investments to train their cutting edge models. Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are going to be a massive flop if they aren't able to sell their best models to the world.

[suddenlybananas]

They do catch up.

[cortesoft]

Which is why I said the overall argument makes sense.