By banning use of Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5 by foreigners to spite the company for denying the Pentagon autonomous killing usage, the US government limits revenues to US users and development to US employees.
It’s killed AI as a global export and domestic champion.
Look at US dependency on foreign intellectual talent and declining foreign student pipeline.
US isn’t smart enough to succeed without foreign brains.
For anyone wondering what this means:
- Anthropic (and potentially future OpenAI, Google, xAI) models that cost billions to develop will make 0 revenue outside the US
- a big double digit percentage of Anthropic (and potentially OpenAI, Google, xAI) workforce can no longer work there, because they are foreigners and are not allowed to use those models
So Trump just made frontier model development effectively unprofitable and tremendously slowed down Anthropic (and potentially others in the future)
He's handing China the win on a gold platter.
*potentially: if the same restrictions are imposed on other frontier labs and models