""The CEOs of these companies say, 'It's the embargo on chips that's holding us back,'" Amodei said, incredulous, in response to a question about the new rules. The decision is going to come back to bite the U.S., he warned. "We are many years ahead of China in terms of our ability to make chips," he told Bloomberg's editor-in-chief, who was interviewing him. "So I think it would be a big mistake to ship these chips.""
"He likened future AI to a "country of geniuses in a data center," saying to imagine "100 million people smarter than any Nobel Prize winner," all under the control of one country or another. The image underscored why he thinks chip exports matter so much. But then came the biggest blow. "I think this is crazy," Amodei said of the administration's latest move. "It's a bit like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea and [bragging that] Boeing made the casings.""
The U.S. reversed an earlier ban and approved exports of Nvidia H200 chips and an AMD chip line to approved Chinese customers. These processors are high-performance AI chips, making the export controversial due to their capacity to accelerate model training and inference. Anthropic sharply criticized the decision at the World Economic Forum in Davos, warning of serious national-security and strategic consequences. Anthropic emphasized U.S. manufacturing advantages and called the export a mistake that could enable concentrated AI capability in a rival country. The company also compared the decision to selling nuclear weapons, underscoring the perceived severity of the risk.
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