Quoting Dean W. Ball

This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics:

• Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of that cost is recouped in the few post-release months that they are broadly available. After that period elapses, the models become sub-frontier, competition emerges, and margins compress. Every week of delay is eating into the narrow window that labs have to make their accounting work.
• The ongoing AI infrastructure buildout—the one that is, according to former US AI Czar David Sacks, [essential to the US economy], assumes a functionally global total addressable market for US AI services. No one is building $100 billion dollar data centers to serve frontier models to whatever 100 companies the US government will allow access. [...]

— [Dean W. Ball](https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/what-should-be-done), 35 thoughts on what has happened and what America should do

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