Can’t wait to find out it was just a guy in a suit.

I mean Meta opened up Llama for free a while ago. But at the end of the day, the AI models posed to actually impact things are those integrated or integrateable into workflows, and those are all still more or less locked down.

LLMs are general purpose models trained on text. The thougbt is they should be able to address anything that can be represented in a textual format.

While you could focus the model by only providing specific types of text, the general notion is they should be able to handle tasks ranging across different domains/disciplines.

Then why mention his name at all. It’s just like the covid checks, Trump demands/wants the attention.

I think it’s more there is a precedence of the government blocking software they think is a threat - https://cmmcinfo.org/list-of-hardware-software-and-services-banned-by-us-government/

We give the government a lot of leeway when it comes to “national security”

Also, we’re not the first country to ban it - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/heres-what-happened-when-india-banned-tiktok