Have seen a bunch of people pushing back on the Anthropic news being a positive catalyst for Venice user growth and $VVV with variations of “well it’s not like Venice has a model that can compete with Mythos.” That’s entirely missing the forest for the trees. Sure that’s the first order effect but the second order effect is the impact on user data and privacy. If one of the top AI labs is willing to switch off access to users at a moments notice, what will prevent them from sharing all of your personal data or gating models/features based on user profiles (location, nationality, background, etc). It’s not about what other models does Venice offer that can compete with Mythos today but rather when you use Venice, usage is private/anonymized/uncensored. The other implication of the Anthropic news is the clear need for decentralized training and open source models that can one day compete near the levels of the models produced by the frontier labs. That’s a long term problem to solve but there are also a lot of interesting protocols working on this, some with liquid tokens but many still pre token launch.

Erik Voorhees explaining the importance of preserving AI as an institution not controlled by government "I would start by just conveying that important institutions of civilization shouldn't be under the control of any group of people" "when i started getting into the AI space, I realized that we have this additional new institution, which is machine intelligence, and this is becoming very quickly as important as money or as mathematics" "and if it is served to the world by a few tech companies who do whatever the government tells them to do, then that's a big problem and I see that would lead to a very dystopian kind of future" "the whole reason we started Venice was to create an antidote to that, to basically allow anyone access to unrestricted machine intelligence"

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

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What people are missing about the US government's AI regulation announcement: ID verification will now be forced on all accounts to prove citizenship. Frontier labs will take your data, and your sovereignty is officially dead. A permanent underclass division and a total control society are beginning right now. People ignored me when I started saying this last year, but it is happening right in front of our eyes. Get into Open-Source and Sovereign AI. Advancing together through collective intelligence is the only way to fight back.

Venice is about to get a ton of new users after this Anthropic news

13 months to the 1st million Venice users. 6.5 months to the 2nd million users. And as predicted, half of that again to 3 million users (just about 3 months for the 3rd million). 4 million users in the next month and half or so is my next prediction. $VVV continues to be my highest conviction AI token and the data is making it very easy to gain even more conviction with time. Congrats to the @AskVenice team on this amazing growth!

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