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But anything the US feds contracted them for, like building data centres, they have to comply or they face penalties and have to pay all the costs back.
10 days ago, a week before this was announced, they awarded $200M contracts each to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI
This doesn’t doom the public versions, but they now have a pretty strong incentive to save money and make them comply with the US governments new definition of truth.