I agree it’s not all altrusim. It’s a little less clear what you mean at the end though.

For these companies, is your argument that “pacing the frontier” is their attempt to be nationalized and protect their investments?

Ban non US models and form a cabal, with the blessings of the government. That's what it is looking like, no?

	▲	le-mark 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In a world where AI advancement depended only on human ingenuity this would make sense. In that world each political power block would be in an existential race for AI supremacy. In our world compute is the limiting resource. Since the US can control who gets compute, the US already has a cabal or defacto supremacy so far as frontier model development. Now if it comes about via human (with AI assist?) ingenuity that compute is no longer a restraint, then the situation is much more dire.