[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.