Game theory from here is super interesting: Original Mags (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta) now have a serious non-zero opportunity to tank the frontier labs. Go to the government, kneecap the labs’ motion of putting the latest models out in the wild, become the trusted gatekeeper between the labs and the public at large (including internationally) by having the labs go through their clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) and implement strict KYC to seal the deal. The frontier labs should have seen this coming years ago and implemented a robust KYC for just this moment. The fact they didn’t is kind of concerning. Why did they not do it? Best guess is because it would have changed the run-rate revenues (downward) which would have then changed funding dynamics - lower valuations, more dilution, less secondary. A valuation reset may happen now anyways, except the labs may end up with less control and more restrictions at the end of it. At the same time, everyone is already clamoring about token prices of the old models from the labs anyways… This couldn’t be a better setup for open source and neoclouds. Big question is can they meet the moment? There are too few of them and their progress seems sporadic at best.

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable. — Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.) — A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused. — In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.” — In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety. — In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community. — The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority. — Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

India needs to figure out how to wire 1B to @SarvamAI asap to train models. Similar to #nuclear the world will divide into countries that have #recursiveselfimprovement vs countries that don’t. This is as important as #Pokharan was @TrivediVedant @aaditya @Sid_1_0 @AjeyGore

Was a big advocate of asking founders to be in valley. When you don't have access to frontier models then it doesn't matter whether you are Bay or BLR if your AI team isn't 100% US citizens. It's a sovereign issue for countries like India, competitive survival for startups.

India needs to figure out how to wire 1B to @SarvamAI asap to train models. Similar to #nuclear the world will divide into countries that have #recursiveselfimprovement vs countries that don’t. This is as important as #Pokharan was @TrivediVedant @aaditya @Sid_1_0 @AjeyGore

Just got the space in IIIT-H for the Viswam initiative. We also got funding for 8 full time researchers and 10 part time researchers. The space from where frontier research will happen and we will launch stuff which will help the world :) Will do a proper launch soon.

While working with Viswam in trying to collect data for Telugu I have come to realize that we are seriously short of digital data in Telugu. But why is that? Here are some reasons from my observation. I think one reason is that as a culture we are very oral. We "tell" bedtime stories instead of asking our kids to "read" bedtime stories. If we have to read, someone has to write :). We need to encourage more people to write. We should get our schools to ask students to write and put their writing online. Input devices are not that common. Kiran Chandra had done some pioneering work for Telugu fonts and now we have some good fonts, but good keyboards etc are still hard to find. I think this problem we can overcome by making voice as the default input and will tie into our oral culture. Culture should be freed up from monopolies. For decades we had only one male voice singing movie songs for which we can find recordings. So many singers and their voices, lost in the sands of time. Culture currently is stuck with a movie monopoly. Songs have to be part of movies. Stories see the light of day through movies. Every one is hidden behind the scenes and behind super stars. I know this is a big change, but it's possible now with phones and new distribution channels. We need to have our hangouts and our parties. I have hope on the younger generation. How many writers, singers, story tellers, comedians, philosophers etc are hidden delivering food. How do we tap them? How do we make them tell their stories and share their art. The voices of this generation and the previous generation have to be captured. This was the purpose of the 1 lakh internship program. We have had mixed results with it. Will share more details later. But if you want to participate in this effort, please reach out to Viswam.ai contact page. We will get in touch.

Stop making loose comments. A foundational model needs 50/60b $ Huge hyper cloud capacity with hundreds of billion $

USA has Claude USA has ChatGPT USA has Gemini USA has Grok China has Qwen China has DeepSeek China has Kimi China has MiniMax Europe has?

PM @narendramodi Sir we need an India AI Mission under you with @NandanNilekani as vice chair and others from the private sector and govt. to Help India tackle the AI Revolution. We are way behind and need a national mission to get going quickly. Existing govt programs are too slow, way too small to make any large impact. We need an annual 50000 cr fund for deep tech and AI, a 200,000 cr ELGS Guarantee Fund to build Hyper cloud, hardware and chips. @AshwiniVaishnaw @nsitharaman @PiyushGoyal @FinMinIndia @RBI We need a Very Large National Mission. @AmitShah @amitmalviya

Claude Fable has been disabled worldwide. This is a sharp wake-up call for India. We must urgently invest in and build sovereign AI solutions right here at home. We’ve already outsourced our communication infrastructure to Meta. Let’s not repeat the same mistake with AI. Once Indians get a real taste of what AI can do, there’s no going back.

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…

we are speedrunning creating the Zones of Thought from the Vinge universe. you will only be able to think superhuman thoughts in America