> As a non-US citizen Opus 4.8 is the best American LLM I will ever have access to.

Your overall argument makes some sense, but I would bet any money this simply is not true. Even if the US maintains some of the restrictions on export (which is in no way a given with how fickle this administration is, let alone the next administration), as LLMs advance, Fable will eventually be considered a lower tier model, and is likely to have restrictions lifted.

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pizzly 5 hours ago | parent [-]

That makes it better, paying money to always having access to the second rate models from US AI providers. The problem remains.

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cheonic52749 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> paying money to always having access to the second rate models from US AI providers. The problem remains.

Your alternative:

Pay a Chinese or EU company for a third rate model.

The choice is yours.

	▲	FpUser 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>"The choice is yours." I think (probably except cases with regulatory restrictions) most will very much prefer to pay for "second rate" models from other suppliers, including China and help them to become premium choice.
	▲	suddenlybananas 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They do catch up.