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Investing @ Interconnected Capital; Writing @interconnect_ed; ex. GitHub, Obama White House/Commerce Dept; no one's quant

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The Great American Tech “Crackdown” Is Looking Like China’s

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By Kevin Xu
| Interconnected
If I had asked you to guess which country’s tech company has to ask its government for an approved list of customers before releasing a new product, you likely would have guessed China or maybe Russia. Except today that honor belongs to OpenAI in America. If I had asked you which country’s government gets “golden shares” in companies it deems strategic or wants to keep a closer eye on, your answer might be China or even Germany.
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Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake

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By Kevin Xu
| Interconnected
The energy to regulate AI is in the air in Washington. With the recently signed executive order to review AI models, a congressional proposal to legislate AI further, the government possibly taking shares of frontier AI labs, and last Friday’s action prohibiting foreign nationals anywhere from accessing Anthropic’s most advanced models, this may be the opening salvo of more AI regulation to come.
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Why Do (Some) Chinese AI Labs Distill?

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By Kevin Xu
| Interconnected
Ever since Anthropic released its report in February on three Chinese AI labs distilling its advanced models to train their own, I have been thinking a lot about adversarial distillation. I carried my thoughts to China, when I recently visited most of the leading labs there, including the three being accused. I tracked how the issue has evolved quickly into action and legislative proposals in Washington.
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