Actually, they got even more than what they wanted:

* Free marketing before the IPO, demonstrating how already powerful their frontier models are.

* Governments to intervene in the rollout of these frontier models and blocking their access to whoever they want.

* A strong reason to apply these further restrictions onto releasing powerful open weight models to the public. (which is entirely a business threat to them.)

Given that they accepted funding from the Gulf states [0] despite it conflicting with their own "principles", I think we are well beyond the point of what they write / say vs to what they are actually doing.

This drama just tells us that the government declared them as the winner that has the most powerful model.

[0] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/anthropic-to-seek...

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sh34r 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, reducing your TAM by roughly 8 billion people is exactly the kind of marketing you want before your IPO. /s

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rvz 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Opus 4.8 is still available to everyone, and the export ban applied specifically to their new Fable / Mythos models. But nice try though.

This sort of attention is exactly what they would to showcase the powerful capabilities of their latest models.

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		Except in one week or a month new Chinese models gonna be released thats might just be better or much cheaper than Opus 4.8.