Wow. This feels like a regulatory regime designed to smother open-source AI, and reduce competition in the American market since small companies are unlikely to be able to comply. The worst part is that doing so is actually against our national interests... China has already essentially caught up to GPT-4V with the release of Qwen-VL-Max yesterday [1]; the cat is out of the bag. Hobbling ourselves now doesn't help.
1: https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1752033872982806718