Why Big Companies Don’t Trust Frontier AI
Summary
Are enterprises more nervous about Chinese open-source models or frontier models? OpenRouter CEO Alex Atallah says it is often frontier models, because companies have less certainty over where their
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What do you think US companies are more nervous of frontier models or Chinese models? >> I think they're more nervous about frontier models. Usually there's much more confusion around the data policy about what's like actually happening to the props that I'm sending and where they're being stored and how they're being looked at and you can't run them on your own machine or in a provider of your choice. And so that just immediately creates all of this uncertainty in a lot of enterprises. And it's uncertainty that they can also pattern match.…
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