> Excellent move by Newsom. [...] It was basically a torpedo against open models.
He vetoed it in part because the threshold it applies to at all are well-beyond any current models, and he wants something that will impose greater restrictions on more and much smaller/lower-training-compute models that this would have left alone entirely.
> Market leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic weren't really worried about it, or about open models in general.
OpenAI (along with Google and Meta) led the institutional opposition to the bill, Anthropic was a major advocate for it.
He vetoed it in part because the threshold it applies to at all are well-beyond any current models, and he wants something that will impose greater restrictions on more and much smaller/lower-training-compute models that this would have left alone entirely.
> Market leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic weren't really worried about it, or about open models in general.
OpenAI (along with Google and Meta) led the institutional opposition to the bill, Anthropic was a major advocate for it.