@quxiaoyin: China and US might want to export control LLMs, but it only takes 1 very strong open weight/source model to disrupt the…
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An opinion that export controls on LLMs between China and the US are ineffective because a single strong open-source model can undermine enforcement, and that countries should focus on accelerating their own progress instead.
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