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Washington is weighing a capability framework that would clear US models, open or closed, if they stay at or below China’s best open weights. A domestic ceiling set by a foreign release.

Demis Hassabis proposes a FINRA-style standards body to certify frontier-class models, calling this the foothills of the singularity now that we have found a way to make sand think.

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