Speculation about export controls on advanced models has revived claims that veteran AI labs steer policy through private channels while younger outfits get tangled in open debates, with the latest flashpoint tied to abrupt restrictions that hit one company's frontier releases.
@emollick They've been playing politics a lot longer and know that the best policy is to be quiet publicly and talk to regulators with your lobbyists instead of blathering constantly in public. The young labs are learning this the hard way.
Is Gemini 3.5 Pro being export controlled? Because if not...
U.S. directives forced Anthropic to cut off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every user after foreign-access rules proved impossible to enforce selectively, while Gemini 3.5 Pro remains untouched by any confirmed action.
No primary records yet show a consistent pattern of quiet established-lab influence versus public startup struggles, leaving the claimed dynamic as an observation rather than documented industry behavior.
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@emollick Like when the reader tells me to not use AI when writing memos. But...
Is Gemini 3.5 Pro being export controlled? Because if not...