[t0mas88]

These are export restrictions, so if the model is in London (how do you determine that? The weights? The training itself?) there is no need to export it from the US. Then Google may have found gold. They can sell it to everyone that can't get the best OpenAI or Anthropic models.

[spacebanana7]

Usually export controls are applied to stuff where some significant % is made in America so a few US based engineers could make the project export controllable.

[itopaloglu83]

Or in the case of ASML machines, any company you can pressure to comply with your policies either by restricting their access to the technology you control or politics between governments.

[t0mas88]

But do they want to start a game of chicken with Google? Doing it to Anthropic is one thing, they're much smaller and less B2C. But Google is far more powerful and likely to defend their UK/EU business because they're also fucked if they don't.

[itopaloglu83]

Possibly. But we also need to keep in mind that Google gave governments access to their internal data center traffic unencrypted for years.