[kulahan]

How so? You'll soon have your choice of a very old OAI model or a new Chinese model, because the USG has no interest in letting you access the newest models without explicit permission.

[nomel]

Their point is that the Chinese models will also me limited to the very old OAI models, unless things flip. as they said.

The use of US models for Chinese model training is part of the motivation of all of this.

[kulahan]

Apologies - I was too quick in my response. I was speaking from a "how the users will perceive it" point of view. China's pretty good at the internet reputation thing.