Tech-backed group opposes California task force on compute thresholds for AI regulation

The Chamber of Progress reached for DeepSeek as a handy example in pushing back on a draft report by the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models, which suggests scoping the regulation of frontier artificial intelligence models based on the amount of compute used in their training.

“China’s release of DeepSeek earlier this year provides a timely example of a model that can achieve high performance with radically less compute than most frontier models,” Todd O’ Boyle, the...