Or they're trying to hype up an investment...

That doesn't really make sense. If Amazon wanted to build hype, wouldn't they have talked publicly about this? What's the point of working hard on a hype strategy and then delivering it only in private to government officials?

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throwaway85825 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The export ban exists to hype the capabilities of the much more expensive but only marginally better model.

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SpicyLemonZest 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The model that they can't currently sell at all because they don't have the capability to limit it to US persons?

	▲	throwaway85825 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Opus was already rate limited. If the capacity isn't there its better just used for hype.