I wonder why LLMs like GPT-4, Bard and Claude are so geo restricted at first? I understand some places have regulatory challenges but can’t see SG, UAE, or Chile being too difficult.
Managing scale while maximizing profit potential? Also, US/UK probably lets them put their strongest linguistic foot forward initially, and there may be additional training done before rolling out to regions with other dominant languages.
> I understand some places have regulatory challenges
That’s probably not the main issue.
Thats where there is lots of money to be made. And if they are GPU constrained, then launching in the countries with the highest proportion of future paying customers makes sense.
The hilarious part of that is that the UK has basically all the regulations that they are probably worried about.
I'm amused by the inclusion of Chile in this list. I'm a Chilean and I do have access, but through the Anthropic Console, as I already had API Access.
That’s not even region locking, it’s capability locking while simultaneously advertising that very thing!