Comment by Anton Leicht

Visiting scholar at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; researcher on the political economy of AI
For securing that access, there are not that many options. I think the best general version we’ve come up with is compute-for-access: you build out data centres to alleviate the inference crunch and meet the demand for inference that these leading labs have, and in return, you ask them for guaranteed access to frontier models — at least at parity with the US commercial market.
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AI Verified Compute-for-access explicitly seeks allied parity in access to frontier models. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1mo ago
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AI Verified Correct answer is for: Leicht advocates allied parity in frontier-model access through compute-for-access. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1mo ago

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AI Verified The 80,000 Hours transcript attributes this wording to Anton Leicht and contains it verbatim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1mo ago
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