> 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.
That makes it better, paying money to always having access to the second rate models from US AI providers. The problem remains.
> 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.
>"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.
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.
They do catch up.
Which is why I said the overall argument makes sense.