Max Levchin
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 13 May
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government organizations.
So this isn't the first international expansion since the U.K.
did have access, but now Japan does.
Japanese Prime Minister, Sane Takeichi,
had instructed cabinet members to ramp up efforts to find cybersecurity weaknesses in Japan's infrastructure and minimize risks posed by cutting edge AI models like Mythos.
Access to Mythos was likely mentioned in her meeting with Besant on Tuesday.
And so Chris McGuire says, tonight the secretary of the treasury is personally vetting and approving each company that gets access to the most advanced US AI model because the risks of the model being misused to hurt US national security are so high.
Also tonight, Jensen Wang is flying on Air Force One with President Trump to Beijing to sell China the AI chips it will use to develop its own mythos-level AI model as soon as possible.
The administration's AI policy remains inconsistent and incoherent.
It is impossible to justify these two approaches simultaneously.
Yeah, I'm still sympathetic to the export control take.
At the same time, I feel like there's a larger negotiation that's going on, so I can sort of see both sides.
But the interesting question that I've been noodling on that I haven't fully gotten to the bottom of is, you know, Dario has said that, you know,
the open source community, China, is maybe six months behind Mythos, and that seems to fall in line with the progress that we're seeing from all the American labs.
And so the interesting question is what would the,
mythos moment look like in China?
Because in America, there was a showdown with the Department of War and Dario going back and forth and Emile Michael, and there was threat of a supply chain designation, which it doesn't feel like ever really went anywhere because the business is still cooking and it's available on all the hyperscaler clouds and the models being granted to...
Japan, and so it feels like the administration has backed off of that, but it was a really tense moment, and it did call into question all these debates around what rules and what authority should rest with the private sector versus the government, and America handled it in sort of a
in a democratic way, loosely, sort of evaluating the technology, having the option to sort of nationalize, and there's this bigger discussion around that.
But in China, we've seen many times where tech companies have gotten really big, and it feels like the CCP is applying pressure to the CEOs, and High Flyer is, the company behind DeepSeek, is in a very unique position where the founder has an immense amount of control,
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