> Restricting the transfer to non-trusted actors of the model weights for advanced closed-weight models. The rule does not in any way inhibit the publication of model weights for open-weight models.
> Setting security standards to protect the weights of advanced closed-weight AI models, permitting them to be stored and used securely around the world while helping prevent illicit adversary access.
Controlling the weights is becoming critical for the US…
I think it's interesting that they're actually using the term "open-weight" here instead of what AI corps would want you to use which would be "open-source", trying to conflate sources and weights. Perhaps a good sign, for a week.
Note Oracle's statement is already a week old (Jan 5th), it's not in response to this Whitehouse order. Expect we'll see a new statement from them soon.
Singapore’s Copyright Act already had the best Text and Data Mining exception. If scraped yourself, anything on the Internet is probably legal to train with.
Now, both Europe and the U.S. are trying to regulate both training and distribution of A.I. models. That might make Singapore an even better place for training A.I. models. The only question is if they have any regulations on training or distribution outside of the Copyright Act.
The linked executive order restricts exports of large numbers of GPUs to Singapore, which might make training models there hard, at least until Chinese GPU technology catches up enough.
There’s companies hosting GPU’s in Singapore. There’s also probably places without export restrictions to Singapore that have GPU’s to sell them. They might also buy them in smaller quantities from many suppliers online. Finally, they could try distributed training on the various, low-cost clouds.
A higher-risk option would be to build or buy FPGA accelerators. They’ve had lots of FPGA’s over there. They might be able to do A.I. on them. It would also be easier for their engineers to port published designs to FPGA’s than to make ASIC’s. Then, maybe make their own FPGA like some academic teams did.
You and I have to compete in this "competitive" job market thanks to AI, but we can't have US megacorps compete with China who might develop better tools used to swindle us.
In seriousness, this make Meta's decision to push open weight models incredibly valuable. Now there's no restrictions on their geographic use or "Security Standards" unlike their competitors.
The US' usual pressure tactic is to create a bluff, first raise sanctions, and use this as a bargaining chip in negotiations to gain benefits.
If you observe closely enough, you will find that every time before the U.S. government negotiates with the Chinese government, it announces new sanctions or other pressure tactics.
Biden, however, played the card that Trump was going to play prematurely.
Trump can not go 'harder', because Biden has compressed Trump's tactical space.
So, when Trump enters the White House, he will find that he has few cards left to play - Chips, Oil, Ukrain War, interest rates, debt and deficit
, etc
Instead, there'll be mines left for him by Biden admin.
As far as I can see, if Trump follows the rhetoric of "Anti-China" for security policy and "America First" trade policy, I believe they will continue with more enforcement.
>As the First Trump Administration demonstrated, America wins through innovation, competition and by sharing our technologies with the world — not by retreating behind a wall of government overreach.
Trump's tariffs plan is all about wielding power over companies. Now companies need to suck up to him to avoid tariffs as much as possible. Suck up could mean public endorsements, pressure on other companies, campaign "donations" (bribes), "investments" (bribes) etc.
It is political power for money in a direct way and it is going to get a lot worse and less subtle.
Readit News
Structuring, but for gpus. Seems like the sort of loophole you could drive a truck through.
> Setting security standards to protect the weights of advanced closed-weight AI models, permitting them to be stored and used securely around the world while helping prevent illicit adversary access.
Controlling the weights is becoming critical for the US…
Oracle: Export Control Diffusion Confusion
https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/export-control... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42690300)
Now, both Europe and the U.S. are trying to regulate both training and distribution of A.I. models. That might make Singapore an even better place for training A.I. models. The only question is if they have any regulations on training or distribution outside of the Copyright Act.
A higher-risk option would be to build or buy FPGA accelerators. They’ve had lots of FPGA’s over there. They might be able to do A.I. on them. It would also be easier for their engineers to port published designs to FPGA’s than to make ASIC’s. Then, maybe make their own FPGA like some academic teams did.
And then we don't want GPT4o closed models going over the fence, but we are ok with Llama3.3?
I am I reading this correctly?
Huawei GPUs
Considering Meta's view about the new president, the new Llama might become closed source at any moment now.
He seems unlikely to make it easier for China, at least without something in return.
The US' usual pressure tactic is to create a bluff, first raise sanctions, and use this as a bargaining chip in negotiations to gain benefits. If you observe closely enough, you will find that every time before the U.S. government negotiates with the Chinese government, it announces new sanctions or other pressure tactics. Biden, however, played the card that Trump was going to play prematurely.
Trump can not go 'harder', because Biden has compressed Trump's tactical space.
So, when Trump enters the White House, he will find that he has few cards left to play - Chips, Oil, Ukrain War, interest rates, debt and deficit , etc Instead, there'll be mines left for him by Biden admin.
that's kind of a strange thing to say
Many of you purchased merchandise with DeCSS code written on it.
Not when your goal is to publicly fellate Donald Trump.
It is political power for money in a direct way and it is going to get a lot worse and less subtle.