Don't Build Your Enterprise AI on Borrowed Access

Article written for Unite.AI

All AI applications and enterprise deployments have been built until now with the assumption that access to frontier AI models will remain possible and almost unlimited. That was the right mindset, until now.

‍The trend was that frontier models’ new capabilities were being commoditized or open-sourced within 6 months and therefore the focus was only about understanding future capabilities as early as possible. The companies, teams or people who could build products by grasping and adapting to new frontier capabilities as early as possible to build applications have been winning.

However, several signals might be indicating that this era will stop soon. The U.S. Commerce Department’s decision to restrict access to Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models to U.S. nationals was only a first sign. However, that restriction was later lifted after coordination with Anthropic, showing just how quickly access conditions can shift and the need for adaptable enterprise AI systems.

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