LLMs are at this point a necessity to develop large scale systems - we couldn t do what we do without them. Our team is worried by the developments of Mythos/Fable getting restricted and the news about GPT 5.6 access being gated by the government customer-by-customer.The part that complicates the obvious answers: the Anthropic directive keyed on the nationality of the person accessing the model, not where the company is incorporated; even their own foreign-national employees lost access. So just flip to a Delaware C-corp doesn t clearly solve it for a team like ours.This is all new and we don t think anyone has real answers yet. We want to hear what others think might work. A few directions we ve floated, none of which we re sure about:- Hoping that at least one frontier model provider remains accessible - An open-weight/non-US floor (GLM/DeepSeek/Qwen) - Hoping for frontier access via Bedrock/Vertex/Azure rather than first-party APIsOur concern is that the regional capability difference gets worse over time. We d all be happy to naturalize to US citizens, but is this even possible - and can we do so before the US compute lead combined with regional restrictions locks us out of being competitive in software production?What are we missing? How are other non-US national founded startups mitigating this (emerging) risk? Are we overestimating it or where could we be wrong?[Context: South Africa, Pre-seed, SMB AI Software Infrastructure, 100% South African Team]