We have reviewed a report that we believe is the basis of the government’s directive and validated that the level of capability displayed there is widely available from other models (including OpenAI’s GPT-5.5), and is used every day by the defenders who keep systems safe. ...
If this standard was applied across the industry, we believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers.
Export controls on AI are probably inevitable (and perhaps a good thing if done well), but this is pretty clearly retaliatory / punitive. OpenAI will presumably release a comparable model in the next few weeks or months, it will be similarly jailbreak-able, but not subject to the same restrictions. Then what?
Not everyone in the administration has the same agenda.
There are likely people who want export controls on all models and people who wants them on no models and putting on on Anthropics model was the easiest to get consensus for at this point in time.
That does not mean that OpenAI is safe in the future as those people who want more export controls can leverage the win.
Export controls on AI are probably inevitable (and perhaps a good thing if done well), but this is pretty clearly retaliatory / punitive. OpenAI will presumably release a comparable model in the next few weeks or months, it will be similarly jailbreak-able, but not subject to the same restrictions. Then what?
Not everyone in the administration has the same agenda.
There are likely people who want export controls on all models and people who wants them on no models and putting on on Anthropics model was the easiest to get consensus for at this point in time.
That does not mean that OpenAI is safe in the future as those people who want more export controls can leverage the win.