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Open From Both Sides
The strategy is access restriction — the idea, foundational to Western AI safety since 2023, that controlling a model means controlling its capabilities. Anthropic’s decision to withhold its new model is the purest expression of this logic. But two forces are now converging, making it untenable. Chinese labs are releasing open-source models that match Western closed ones, trained entirely on domestically manufactured chips that the US tried to restrict. And safety alignment — the technical mechanism that’s supposed to make open release safe — is being removed from any model within days of publication, at zero cost, by anyone who can type a command.