Ev Williams

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383 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: SpaceX Soars to $2.7TRN | Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix and Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN and The Case for Sovereign Models | Fin Acquired by Salesforce for $3.6BN · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

There's been a ton of conflicting reports on this that there hasn't been.

I mean, not that journalists get things 100% right most of the time anyway, but there's been like actually contradictory reporting on the way things went down and how it all went through.

I actually think what matters most, though, is what happens next.

I think we're going to know a lot more about the significance of all of this in six to 12 months time than now, because at the face of it, this is a Rubicon moment in the history of the AI industry.

It's the first time that the US has ostensibly regulated an AI model based on capabilities.

The first scuffle with Anthropic was due to a disagreement over basically the contract that they were signing and what the government could use the models for.

They were not regulating it or restricting it to non-US citizens based on capability.

They are now saying, at least on face, that they are regulating an AI model based on the capabilities and what those capabilities could do in foreign adversary hands.

I think that's a huge deal.

And what we're going to see is if they actually mean that, or if this is, again, just like another battle between Anthropic and the government.

But when OpenAI or when Google, they're going to get to Mythos Fable quality models very soon, within the next three to six months.

And then we're going to see.

We're going to see if the government actually wants to regulate models based on these capabilities.

And if we've crossed this Rubicon, where now the government is going to gate access to intelligence.

And I think the most interesting thing is if we extend the analogy even further, and there's been some people on X that have talked about this as a possible future.

Imagine if we get ASI.

Imagine if we actually get things like recursive self-improvement kicking in and we actually have artificial superintelligence.

We have this vision of geniuses in a data center.

What happens when the government is gating access to superintelligence?

Who gets access to that?

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