There was recently some announcement from the US govt itself (after the Mythos announcement) that they were pondering about allowing model releases from now on only after approving them.

So it may not be strictly true for the moment, but it is certainly something that the current US govt can mandate at any time.

The US government just saying they were pondering something is:

1) Far from them actually trying to do it

2) Very, very far from them actually doing it successfully

The US government absolutely cannot "just tell" private entities what products they're allowed to create and sell, and the fact that LLMs are arguably a form of expression will make these particular products extremely hard to regulate – especially as a broad "government checkpoint" on incremental product updates.

In China, it really is as simple as the government deciding that it doesn't like your products and ta-da, you can no longer sell them.

It's beyond naive to act like these are similar in any meaningful sense.

Nonsense, the genie is out of the bottle worldwide and it isn’t going back in, and due to the activity of the current US government America’s standing, is declining most countries going into the future are going to hedge against the United States and whatever it says the good old days (goodwill/the small benefit of the doubt) are gone.

The AI oligarchs have no loyalty and when it comes to making money and they will drop the king at their first opportunity and the king in return will do the same.