The leading AI has already forked into two options.
A: Closed source American that costs $26-56 per 1MM tokens.
B: Open weight Chinese that costs $0.50-1 per 1MM tokens.
If you force American companies to spend 50-100x more than their competitors abroad here is what will happen:
1. American companies spending 50-100x will at some point become financially impaired and the stock market will crater. This is the equivalent of the US Government saying we can only buy oil at $800/barrel even when the free market sells the same oil for $80/barrel.
2. In the short term, the revenues of the Closed American Labs may remain hi. But then their revenue will also crater because their customers in the US will be impaired and their customers abroad will have already flipped to cheaper solutions.
This would be a terribly self-defeating form of intervention if it were to happen.
To burn out is better than to fade away. Better to be consumed by passion than by regret.
Apply yourself. Commit fully. Leave little of your potential unexplored.
Not every pursuit will succeed, but few things are more tragic than a life spent wondering what might have been.
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. ” - Archimedes.
This is why I refuse the fraud and poverty capital tag for Nigerians. Give people a chance and like Archimedes with a lever and fulcrum, they will move the world.
The world does not reward potential. It rewards proof. Nobody cares how intelligent, talented, or visionary you believe yourself to be if your life produces no visible evidence of it.