Anthropic curbs make the case for sovereign AI, Upstage chief says
When the US government ordered Anthropic to cut foreign access to its most capable models, and the company switched them off worldwide rather than try to comply selectively, it handed every advocate of home-grown AI a tidy piece of evidence. Sung Kim, chief executive of the South Korean startup Upstage, picked it up at a briefing in Seoul on Tuesday.
“AI is no longer just a service or a tool we use; it has become a strategic national asset,” Kim told reporters, according to Bloomberg. The countries that control the foundational technology, he argued, the United States and China, can withdraw access whenever it suits them.
His conclusion was the one his company is built to serve: “We need to advance our own technology as quickly as possible and become as self-reliant as we can.”
The remarks land on a specific event. Anthropic disabled its Fable 5 and Mythos...
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