Comment by villish
2 hours ago
> Anthropic would be running their own distillation “attacks” too if _they_ were the ones playing catch-up
Probably. But if OpenAI or Anthropic stole your credit card to purchase tokens you could sue them. You won't get a cent from any Chinese labs.
> it’s nice to see some actual competition again.
Competition benefits everyone. But this isn't fair competition. A German startup cannot legally do any of these tactics required to bypass Anthropic/OAI's counter-measures. Which makes EU less competitive and therefore less investment in European AI.
> A German startup cannot legally do any of these tactics required to bypass Anthropic/OAI's counter-measures.
A German startup cannot legally do what Anthropic/OpenAI have done. And neither could Anthropic/OAI themselves. What's your point again?
> What's your point again
I said it in my original comment. That is the moat. The reason frontier AI is a two horse race. European labs cannot gain ground because the only way to do it is illegally.