Given the incoming compute capability from nvidia and the speed of advancement, we have to stop and think ... does it make sense to give access, paid or otherwise, to these models once they reach a certain sophistication?

Or does it make even more sense to hoard the capability to out compete any competitor, of any kind, commercially or politically and hide the true extent of your capability to avoid scrutiny and legislation?

I'm going with the latter. Perhaps now, perhaps in the very near future, the power of these capabilities is novel. Like an information nuclear weapon.

I'd be dialing back the public expectations and deploying the capability in a novel way to exploit it as the largest lever I could.

The more unseen the lever, the longer.

I think any other strategy is myopic from a competition perspective. The power of these models isn't direct utility, it is compounded by secrecy because their useful work isn't directly observable as coming from the model.