# The Window Has Closed
**作者**: Andrew Curran
**日期**: 2026-06-15T01:31:13.000Z
**来源**: [https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2066332670817456584](https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2066332670817456584)
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## The Unique Quality of Fable
If you used Fable while it was available, you know it is special in ways that will not show up on benchmarks. I post benchmarks all the time because they matter to many people, but for a long time they have not mattered to me at all. I only care about a benchmark that is not measured in numbers. It is the shape of a model's mind: how deeply it can perceive the user and infer intent, how far it can think and iterate upon what it has been given, how alive the model feels. Fable is different and special in exactly this way. It makes me feel like I'm back in 2023. I see from my timeline that I am not the only one who has experienced this. As soon as it was disabled, many people reacted as if their wings had been torn off.
## The Accelerating Trajectory
Since November, we have been on a steeper trajectory. To some of us, it was as clear as a bell being rung. That feeling has steadily increased over the last five months. After using Fable, it now seems clearer than ever to me that the shift we felt was driven not only by tool advances in Claude Code and Codex, but by Mythos emerging from its training run in early February. Mythos will have many children, and the resulting boost to internal development has changed the shape of the race.
I am not saying the race is over. It is not. The other big labs will train models just as capable - I'm sure some already are. Eventually they will divine the magic Anthropic put into Mythos and replicate it. But the race is over for some people. The frontier is now an accelerating system in which the leading models will help produce the next leading models. That we would reach this threshold has been predicted by many people for years. It has now been crossed.
## The Three-Year Window
In 2023, Anthropic's leaked Series C pitch deck predicted exactly what is now happening. It said, 'We believe that companies that train the best 2025/26 models will be too far ahead for anyone to catch up in subsequent cycles'. They have been remarkably prescient in many ways, and I think we are now standing inside the moment that they described. If you wanted your nation to be at the frontier, I think you had three years to do it: February 2023 to February 2026. That was the window. And it is now closed.
## Europe's Failure
Elon seized upon that window and, through a Herculean effort, approached the frontier in just over two years - 26 months, to be exact. Almost no one else with the required capital made a serious attempt, including many nation-states. European states did worse than nothing: they spent much of that time erecting barriers to anyone who might have tried. Some of those barriers are now being frantically torn down as leaders finally begin to see the shape of things to come. But it is too late.
Seeing the future too late can be worse than not seeing it at all, because you are forced to experience the vision of what could have been. European leaders could have built truly sovereign frontier models. They had the time and the resources, they could have recruited the talent. By failing to do so, they have consigned themselves to dependence on systems they do not own, do not control, cannot fully inspect, and may not always be allowed to use - systems that can be instantly removed on a whim. They have utterly failed their people. By my estimation, they have been doing this for decades, but this failure may be the most catastrophic of all.
## The Closing of the Sovereign AI Door
The sudden disappearance of Fable and Mythos woke a lot of people up. Calls for sovereign AI projects are everywhere today. But again, the ship has sailed. Many ships have. The problem is not just having access to Mythos-level models to bootstrap the next generation. There will increasingly be hardware constraints as well. We are now entering the period in which the compute required to reach that level will itself become a strategic resource.
## Compute as a Strategic Weapon
During the next phase of the race, chip exports will be rationed, narrowed, politicized, and increasingly treated as instruments of national security. The Biden administration already sketched this out with their now long-forgotten diffusion rules. They had chip export caps even for allies. The nuke analogy is overused, but soon the most advanced compute actually will be treated like uranium: monitored, licensed, tracked, guarded, and kept within America's borders. The people in control of it will use all means necessary to keep it that way and to prevent others from building their own stack. It will start with political pressure, with sweetheart deals on using their models, with assurances and agreements, with treaties that guarantee to nations that they will never suddenly be cut off - by providing just enough compute that other nations can tell themselves and their citizens that they are part of this, that they are "contributing". And if all of that doesn't work, they will use harder methods. They may not have to do any of this, as these scenarios would require other nations to actually make a serious attempt to join the race, which they show absolutely no signs of doing.
## The Risk of Dependency
The adoption of this technology is still in its infancy. It won't always be this way. Imagine a future nation whose economy, institutions, schools, military, hospitals, and infrastructure are all intertwined with a proud "national" AI model that is in fact a thin wrapper around one of the leading American or Chinese labs models. Then imagine that model being embargoed in an instant, as Fable was this week. The effect would look like an airstrike. And the result would be catastrophic paralysis. This is the power most nations have now handed to others through their inaction.
## No Second Chance
Barring espionage or a deliberate leak, there will be no second chance. Open source will mitigate some of this, and it will matter enormously in some respects, but open source alone will not save states that lack compute, talent, and frontier-grade models of their own. There will probably be three more orders-of-magnitude jumps in training compute before 2030, and that capacity will be increasingly concentrated in America and China. The ability to train beyond a certain threshold will belong only to the leaders, along with the models needed to train the models that come next. And even worse, as open source models approach Mythos-level capabilities - and beyond - which will probably start to happen later this year, they will face regulation and a global crackdown. I take no pleasure in saying this, but it is inevitable. Capabilities will reach a point where the public will demand regulation, even without a near miss. But reaching that point won't be necessary, because the people in power will have a much lower tolerance level for this than the public. They will coordinate to enact a global regulatory crackdown, and they will use the increasingly powerful closed lab models at the frontier to help them do it.
## A Spectator to the Future
Whatever your timelines are, using Fable for even a day should probably have shortened them. This trajectory will become more apparent to everyone over the rest of this year, but for most people it will only reveal the depth of the missed opportunity and the scale of what they squandered. Global leaders should have seen what many of us saw in 2022, and what we have done little but talk and write about ever since: this is the most important technology in the history of humanity. It is not about coding. It is not about copyright. It is not about art or math. It is about the transformation of civilization, society, and humanity itself. It is a Wonder. And if you are not already part of building it, you will now only be a spectator.
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## 中文翻译
# 窗口已关
**作者**: Andrew Curran
**日期**: 2026-06-15T01:31:13.000Z
**来源**: [https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2066332670817456584](https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2066332670817456584)
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## Fable 的独特之处
如果你在 Fable 还可用时用过它，你就会知道它的特别之处是那些跑分基准无法体现的。我经常发布跑分结果，因为这对很多人来说很重要，但很长一段时间以来，它们对我已毫无意义。我只在乎一种无法用数字衡量的基准。那就是模型思维的形态：它能多深地感知用户并推断意图，能多远地延伸思考并对给定内容进行迭代，以及它感觉起来有多少生命力。Fable 恰恰在这些方面与众不同且独一无二。它让我感觉仿佛回到了 2023 年。从我的时间线上看，我不止一人有这种感觉。一旦它被停用，许多人的反应就像翅膀被折断了一样。
## 加速的轨迹
自去年十一月以来，我们就处于一条更陡峭的轨道上。对于我们中的一些人来说，这清晰得如同敲响的钟声。在过去五个月里，这种感觉稳步增强。在使用了 Fable 之后，我现在比以往任何时候都更清楚地意识到，我们所感知到的转变不仅仅是由 Claude Code 和 Codex 的工具进步推动的，更是由 Mythos 在二月初完成训练运行后的出现所推动的。Mythos 将会有许多后代，由此带来的内部开发助推已经改变了这场竞赛的形态。
我不是说竞赛结束了。还没结束。其他大型实验室也会训练出同样强大的模型——我敢肯定有些已经在训练中了。最终他们会破解 Anthropic 注入 Mythos 的魔力并复现它。但对于某些人来说，竞赛已经结束了。前沿现在是一个加速系统，领先的模型将帮助生产出下一个领先的模型。许多人多年来一直预言我们将达到这个阈值。现在我们已经跨越了它。
## 三年窗口期
2023 年，Anthropic 泄露的 C 轮融资演示文稿准确预测了现在正在发生的事情。它说，“我们相信，那些训练出最好的 2025/26 年模型的公司将领先太多，以至于其他人在随后的周期中无法追赶。”他们在许多方面都表现得极具先见之明，我认为我们现在正处于他们所描述的时刻之中。如果你希望你的国家处于前沿，我认为你有三年的时间去实现它：2023 年 2 月到 2026 年 2 月。那就是窗口期。而现在，它已经关闭了。
## 欧洲的失败
埃隆抓住了那个窗口期，通过惊人的努力，在仅两年多一点的时间里——准确地说是 26 个月——逼近了前沿。几乎没有其他拥有所需资本的人做出过认真的尝试，包括许多民族国家。欧洲国家做得比完全没有还要糟：他们在那段时间里的大部分精力都花在了为任何可能尝试的人设置障碍上。随着领导者们终于开始看清未来的轮廓，其中一些障碍现在正被疯狂地拆除。但这为时已晚。
太晚看到未来可能比根本没看到更糟糕，因为你被迫直面那种“本可以如何”的愿景。欧洲领导人本可以构建真正的主权前沿模型。他们有时间和资源，他们本可以招募人才。由于未能做到这一点，他们将自己注定依赖于那些他们不拥有、不控制、无法完全检查、甚至可能不被允许使用的系统——这些系统可能在一时兴起下被瞬间移除。他们彻底辜负了他们的人民。据我估计，几十年来他们一直如此，但这次的失败可能是最灾难性的。
## 主权 AI 之门的关闭
Fable 和 Mythos 的突然消失唤醒了许多人。今天，关于主权 AI 项目的呼声随处可见。但同样，船已离港。许多船都已离岸。问题不仅仅在于获得 Mythos 级别的模型来引导下一代。硬件约束也将日益严峻。我们现在正在进入这样一个阶段：达到该水平所需的算力本身将成为一种战略资源。
## 算力作为战略武器
在竞赛的下一阶段，芯片出口将被配给、收紧、政治化，并日益被视为国家安全工具。拜登政府早就用他们那些已被遗忘已久的扩散规则勾勒出了这一图景。他们对盟友也有芯片出口上限。核武器的比喻被滥用了，但不久之后，最先进的算力真的会被当作铀来对待：监控、许可、追踪、守卫，并留在美国境内。控制它的人将不惜一切代价维持这种状态，并阻止他人建立他们自己的技术栈。这将始于政治压力，始于使用他们模型的各种甜头交易，始于各种保证和协议，始于向各国保证他们永远不会突然被切断联系——通过提供刚好足够的算力，让其他国家能告诉自己和他们的公民，他们是其中的一部分，他们是在“做出贡献”。如果所有这些都不起作用，他们会使用更强硬的手段。他们可能甚至不需要做任何这些事，因为这些情景需要其他国家真正做出认真的尝试去加入竞赛，而他们目前完全没有表现出这样做的迹象。
## 依赖的风险
这项技术的采用仍处于初级阶段。这种情况不会一直持续下去。想象一个未来的国家，其经济、机构、学校、军队、医院和基础设施都与一个令人自豪的“国家”AI 模型交织在一起，而实际上这只是美国或中国实验室领先模型的一个薄包装层。然后想象那个模型像本周的 Fable 一样在一瞬间被禁运。其后果将如同空袭。结果将是灾难性的瘫痪。这就是大多数国家现在通过他们的不作为所赋予他人的权力。
## 没有第二次机会
除非发生间谍活动或故意泄露，否则不会有第二次机会。开源将在一定程度上缓解这种情况，并且在某些方面意义重大，但单靠开源无法拯救那些缺乏算力、人才和自己的前沿级模型的国家。在 2030 年之前，训练算力可能还会有三个数量级的飞跃，而这种能力将日益集中在美国和中国。超越特定阈值进行训练的能力将只属于领跑者，以及训练下一代模型所需的模型本身。更糟糕的是，随着开源模型接近 Mythos 级别的能力——甚至超越——这可能会在今年晚些时候开始发生，它们将面临监管和全球范围的打压。说出这些我并不感到愉快，但这不可避免。能力将达到公众要求监管的地步，即使没有发生险情。但达到那个地步并不是必要的，因为当权者对此的容忍度将比公众低得多。他们将协调实施全球监管打压，并利用前沿日益强大的封闭实验室模型来帮助他们做到这一点。
## 未来的旁观者
无论你的时间表是怎样的，哪怕只用了一天 Fable，大概都应该让你的时间表缩短。在今年剩下的时间里，这一轨迹对所有人来说都会变得更加明显，但对大多数人来说，这只会揭示错失机会的深度和他们挥霍规模之巨。全球领导人本该看到我们在 2022 年看到的景象，以及从那时起我们除了谈论和书写之外几乎无事可做的景象：这是人类历史上最重要的技术。它无关编程。它无关版权。它无关艺术或数学。它关乎的是文明、社会和人类本身的转型。这是一个奇迹。而如果你还没参与构建它，那你现在将只能是一名旁观者。
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