Yes, the whole "China's coming, so protect the frontier labs" line is just a smoke screen for something much smaller.
The model layer itself is not the economy of AI. It's only a slice.
If you can reduce the cost of running these models by 10X or 100X, that’s actually rocket fuel for the rest of us down the line.
So the very thing the labs fear, price drops, could enlarge the entire pie.
Tricking the US Government to protect frontier labs’ business model by using a China boogeyman is a mistake. It is protecting the equity of 5,000 people who are...