Meet Your Ad Hoc AI Licensing Regime
The US government has implemented an ad hoc, informal licensing regime for frontier AI models, leading to delays for both Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.6. Access to these models will be granted on a customer-by-customer basis during limited previews, a move criticized by industry figures as arbitrary and non-transparent. This approach aims to control the rollout of advanced AI capabilities, though it is argued to slow release rather than development.
This new regime creates an opaque and potentially inefficient process for accessing cutting-edge AI, which could stifle innovation and widen the gap between what labs can develop and what the public can use.
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