Chapter 7, the frontier’s deployment

The test. An audited frontier model trained end to end on domestic Chinese silicon, at a compute budget within a factor of two of the American frontier, weakens the clause that denial slows the frontier’s deployment in China and confirms the clause that durable denial accelerates the ecosystem beneath it. The audit counts only if a party outside the developer publishes it.

open Open. No frontier model has been trained end to end on domestic silicon on the record.

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31 December 2027

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Two governments deciding one trade: Washington’s export rules and Beijing’s instructions at the border, and what each did to the chip business it meant to shape.

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  author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
  title = {{Chapter 7, the frontier's deployment}},
  howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2027-15},
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