@julien_c: dl stuff from hf while you can?
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A tweet suggests downloading models from Hugging Face while possible, citing potential restrictions on Chinese AI models in the West and slow rollouts for American frontier releases due to policy changes.
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dl stuff from hf while you can? 🫥
Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_): This also means Chinese models are almost certainly going to be restricted in some way - possibly even banned - in the West. Right now they’re roughly nine months behind. If every American frontier release is forced into a slow, staggered rollout from now on, they’ll start
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