If Trump moves forward with his reported plan to ban open source AI models out of China, then:
- Brazil will have access to frontier intelligence models, but the USA won't.
- Russia will have access to frontier intelligence models, but the USA won't.
- India will have access...
- Turkey will have access...
- Pakistan will have access...
- Vietnam will have access...
... etc.
But U.S. companies will be forced to use government-approved, dumbed-down, nerfed AI models that are intentionally retarded and incapable of doing much.
So every U.S. corporations of any real size will FIRE their U.S. tech workers, and they'll set up new offices in Brazil, Argentina, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, etc., where they can actually use the world's best AI models (from China), and that's how you'll see a mass exodus of tech jobs away from the USA while the country also loses the AI race to superintelligence.
I call this the "MADA" plan - Make America Dumb Again.
I'm sure Anthropic and OpenAI will push for it.